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Jun 06 - 2024
GR Europe

Healthy Seas: Cleaning Up 'Dead' Fish Farms

Kathimerini

The action of the Healthy Seas organization. In the last mission, the team recovered 35,820 kg of waste in Nafpaktia and 6,870 in Ithaca. By Ioanna Photiadi.

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Oct 30 - 2023
EN Europe

Greek Fish Farming and Its Smuggling Mafia

Kathimerini

It is estimated that between 7,000 and 10,000 tons of fish are traded illegally, as they are not recorded in accounting statements.
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IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated)
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Jan 22 - 2023
EN Europe

New Legal Challenge to the 'Awful Business' of Salmon Factory Farming

Ecohustler

UK government faces threat of legal action over its failure to regulate the growing fish farming industry.
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Legislation / Lawsuits / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Salmon
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Mar 10 - 2016
EN South America

Chile's Salmon Farms Lose $800m as Algal Bloom Kills Millions of Fish

The Guardian

High ocean temperatures helped cause toxic bloom that has wiped out up to 20% of Chile’s total production for the year.
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Salmon
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Sept 04 - 2012
EN Europe

Record Algae Blooms Linked to Fish Farms

The Fish Site

IRELAND - Record toxic algae blooms continue to close shellfish harvesting in the south west of Ireland are caused in part by the waste from fish farms. The local action group set up to oppose the expansion of fish farming, Save Bantry Bay, has drawn attention to the fact that fish farms are responsible for far more nitrogen and phosphorous in our coastal waters than sewage from major towns.
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Salmon / Bivalves
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Oct 25 - 2023
EN Europe

Litter Free Fish Farming Initiative

Katheti

An analysis by independent consultants Poseidon Aquatic Resource Management Ltd. reveals that a 2015 Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for aquaculture development on Poros contains significant flaws and insufficiencies.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Tourism / Legislation / Poros
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Mar 27 - 2023
GR Europe

Xiromero Submits Cancellation Request of Presidential Decree Approval of the Echinacea Islands and AIT/NIA POAY

AIXMH

On Thursday, March 23, 2023, the request for the cancellation of the Presidential Decree (PD) (sheet no. 25, Issue Four 23/01/2023) was submitted to the Council of State (StE), by the Lawyer of the Municipality of Xiromero, Mrs. Anthi Giannoulou, which concerns the establishment of the Aquaculture Organized Development Area (OAAD) of the Echinacea Islands and Ait/nia.
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Legislation / Lawsuits / Poros
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May 31 - 2023
GR Europe

Euboic SOS!! Occupation of 22,000 marine acres with polluting fish farms from Marmari to Oreus!!

Evia Today

Despite environmental concern, a Draft Presidential Decree is under approval that will institutionalize the establishment of an industrial fish farming zone throughout the Evia.
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Jun 05 - 2023
GR Europe

Mobilizations in Dorida to prevent the creation of two new fish farming units - Together with the municipality, residents and agencies.

Nafpaktia News

The residents of the Municipality of Doridos started the mobilization against the creation of two new fish farming units in Prasoudi and Mavro Oros in NE.
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Oct 19 - 2020
GR Europe

Huge threat to Poros: Fish Farming Industrial Zone is established

Proto Thema

The creation of an Industrial Area for the Organized Development of Aquacultures in Poros is in the final stretch , as the Ministry of the Environment has forwarded the relevant Environmental Study (SEA) to the Municipality.
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Legislation / Poros
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Jun 10 - 2022
EN Europe

Calp Demonstrates Against the Fish Farm

Costa Bianca News

About 200 people gathered at the rally called by the Calp town hall to reject the project to expand the fish farm off the coast of Calp.
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Legislation
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Mar 08 - 2023
EN North America

B.C. First Nations reject continued fish farming in the Broughton Archipelago

Saanich News

Three First Nations announce their call on region’s last 7 fish farms through consent-based processes.
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Legislation / Salmon
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Jun 24 - 2022
EN North America

Canada Will Phase Out BC Open Water Net Pens

Wild Fish Conservancy

In a press release this week, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries Joyce Murray announced that the Canadian government is taking bold action to phase out all open net pen aquaculture in British Columbia’s coastal waters.
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Legislation / Salmon
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Mar 04 - 2018
EN North America

State lawmakers end net pen fish farming

KING 5 Seattle

Piget Sound fish farm collapse led to the escape of 250,000 salmon into local water. Local Senator Kevin Ranker is fighting to phase out net pens in the area. Cooke Aquaculture Pacific is fighting back.
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Biodiversity loss / Legislation / Lawsuits / Salmon
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Nov 18 - 2022
EN North America

Washington Bans Fish-Farming Net Pens, Citing Salmon Threat

U.S. News & World Report

Washington has banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters, owned by Cooke Aquaculture, citing danger to struggling native salmon.
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Biodiversity loss / Legislation / Lawsuits / Salmon
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Jul 08 - 2021
EN South America

Argentina becomes first country to ban open-net salmon farming due to impact on environment

Independent

Similar fish farming techniques have caused plagues of sea lice and ecological crises in Scotland, Norway and Chile.
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Legislation / Salmon
News
Apr 08 - 2022
EN South America

ExCo Refuse Salmon Farming in Falklands

FITV

The Executive Council of the Falkland Islands refused salmon farming in the islands last week. A review of aquaculture development was considered by ExCo, with recommendations attached to the paper not approved.
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Biodiversity loss / Legislation / Salmon
News
Apr 02 - 2022
EN South America

Falklands refuses to authorize salmon farms on an industrial scale

MercoPress

The Falkland Islands Executive Council has resolved that large-scale aquaculture, including salmon farming, will not take place in the Falklands, based on considerations included in an international document on best practices for such farming, as well as options for the regulatory framework.
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Legislation / Salmon
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Jul 17 - 2024
EN Global

Activists pushing UK restaurant chain Wagamama to drop farmed salmon

Seafood Source

A petition led by Feedback and WildFish and signed by more than 100,000 people is pushing U.K. restaurant chain Wagamama to remove farmed salmon from its menu after the two campaign groups 'revealed damage inflicted by farmed salmon on the environment, wild fish populations, and farmed salmon welfare.' The groups said Wagamama’s use of farmed salmon runs contrary to the restaurant chain’s commitment to the environment.
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Small-scale fishers / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Salmon
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Oct 22 - 2023
EN North America

Washington state net-pen ban not legally binding, judge rules

Undercurrent News

The ruling is an important victory for the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Northwest Aquaculture Alliance and Cooke.
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Nov 22 - 2022
EN North America

Washington ban makes entire US West Coast off-limits for net-pen finfish aquaculture

Seafood Source

An executive order issued by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on 18 November, 2022, will prohibit any net-pen aquaculture on state-owned aquatic lands. The move came in response to the 2017 collapse of a net-pen farm operated by Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture that led to the escape of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon. It does not apply to hatcheries that have an environmental restoration mission or that boost native stocks.
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Legislation / Marine fauna / Hunger / Nutrition / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Salmon
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