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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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News
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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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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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 01 - 2018
EN Europe

Greece's Reformed EIA System: Evaluating its Implementation and Potential

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Greek government and the troika in 2010 contained numerous austerity policies and requirements for administrative reforms, among which is that of the national Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system. Complying with this requirement, Law4014/2011 was passed, aiming at reducing bureaucracy and increasing the country's appeal to investors whilst ensuring environmental protection. The present paper provides the first systematic, multi-scale and multidimensional evaluation of the effectiveness of the new EIA system.
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Research
Feb 01 - 2016
EN Europe

Environmental Impact Assessment in Greece

International Hellenic University

Examines the effectiveness of the 2011 revision of Greek law 4014/2011, which set out to improve the country’s Environmental Impact Assessment System, and whether these revisions were adequately enforced.
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May 02 - 2023
EN North America

Ensnared: 21st-Century Aquaculture Law and the Coming Battle for the Ocean

The Environmental Law Reporter

As overfishing has depleted wild fisheries, U.S. policymakers have pushed aquaculture as an ideal paradigm for ocean fisheries. However, the public perception and myths of finfish commercial aquaculture are far from its reality. This Article examines the industrial aquaculture debate through the lens of Gulf Fishermens Ass’n v. National Marine Fisheries Service, where conservationists and fishermen challenged the first-ever rulemaking to set up a new aquaculture industry in U.S. federal waters. It gives an overview of industrial net pen aquaculture and its adverse environmental and socioeconomic impacts; offers an “aquaculture law 101” overview, providing the legal and regulatory basis; and recounts Gulf Fishermens and its ramifications for open ocean aquaculture. It then details the post-Gulf Fishermens efforts to continue to promote aquaculture development in U.S. waters and the current regulatory and litigation landscape, and concludes with “lessons learned” for the broader debate over the future of our oceans.

George A. Kimbrell and Meredith L. Stevenson are attorneys at the Center for Food Safety.

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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 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
Documentary Films
Jul 14 - 2022
EN North America

Our Waters (trailer)

Parley for the Oceans

In 2020 a group of Norwegian investors announced plans to develop American Aquafarms off the coast of Maine's Acadia National Park. It would be one of the world's largest ocean-based salmon farms.
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Legislation / Salmon
Documentary Films
May 26 - 2023
ES, EN, GR South America

Contracorriente

Guido De Paula

Without a law to prohibit the salmon industry in Tierra del Fuego, Antártida and Islas del Atlantico Sur (TFAIAS), Argentina, one of the world’s most untouched places was in danger: the Beagle Channel. 'Contracorriente' illustrates the effects of salmon farming and the crucial need to safeguard these pristine waters. The documentary was screened for the local community to inform them about the impending threat – their government had just signed a deal with a salmon company. Thanks to this film and other efforts, Tierra del Fuego achieved a remarkable feat: becoming the first location to ban open-net salmon farming, making Argentina the pioneer country to do so, even before it could take root. (From Global Salmon Farming Resistance, thegsfr.com )

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Salmon / Legislation
Research
Jul 07 - 2023
EN Europe

How to improve the link between the Common Fisheries Policy and the Nature Restoration Law proposal?

The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament

The report explores how existing marine restoration procedures can be improved to ensure that the EU nature restoration law also delivers on marine ecosystems.
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Legislation / UN: Environment Programme EU Commission on Fisheries
Investigative Journalism
Aug 27 - 2024
EN North America

With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River

New York Times

The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river at the California-Oregon border.
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Legislation / Salmon
News
Sept 30 - 2024
EN North America

Federal court declares finfish enclosure permit unlawful

Courthouse News Service

A federal court Monday deemed a nationwide permit authorizing the installation of fish farming structures unlawful, but questioned how to proceed with a remedy due to a lack of information in the record.
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Legislation / Lawsuits
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Oct 01 - 2024
EN North America

Victory! Court Holds Unlawful Federal Government Decision That Greenlit Industrial Fish Farming in Ocean Waters

Center for Food Safety

U.S. Army Corps Failed to Adequately Assess Fish Farms' Risks to Marine Life, Fishing and Indigenous Communities.
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Oct 15 - 2024
EN Europe

Aquaculture bill delay contributes to Icelandic government collapse

IntraFish

The latest delay to Iceland’s long-awaited aquaculture bill was cited by the country’s prime minister as one of several factors in the collapse of the country's coalition government, national broadcaster RUV reported. By Hanna Gezelius
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Legislation / Salmon
News
Oct 30 - 2024
EN Europe

Arnarlax has 10,000 tonne licence revoked in Iceland

Fish Farmer

The large Icelandic salmon farming company Arnarlax was told yesterday that its licence to farm 10,000 tonnes of sterile salmon in Isafjord has been revoked. The reason given by the Icelandic Environmental and Natural Resources Board of Appeal was that MAST, the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority failed to provide a 'comprehensive, weighted assessment of the potential risk of the spread of fish diseases and parasites' before issuing the licences. The ruling is a big setback for Arnarlax, which is the production division of Icelandic Salmon and which in turn is majority owned by the Norwegian salmon farmer SalMar. By Vince McDonagh
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Legislation / Salmon
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Oct 29 - 2024
EN South America

Referencing public dialogue, proposals, Chile inches closer to preparing General Aquaculture Law

Seafood Source

Chile’s Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca) is preparing a new aquaculture law to regulate the nation's multi-billion-dollar salmon-farming sector and other fish-farming operations in the country. By Christian Molinari
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Legislation / Salmon
Investigative Journalism
Nov 04 - 2024
EN Europe

Estonia's small but meaty mussels could help generate revenue while cleaning up the Baltic

ERR

In addition to trout farming, Estonia has potential to develop a separate industry for cultivating edible mussels. A study conducted by Estonian marine scientists on Saaremaa indicates that while the local mussel is smaller than its Swedish counterpart, it contains more meat. However, questions remain on how to maximize the value of mussel production and establish a profitable market for it. By Airika Harrik
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News
Oct 18 - 2024
EN North America

National Seafood Month: Fish farming crowds out wild salmon

Public News Service

October is National Seafood Month and the fish on your plate might not be coming from where you think. The U.S. imports 90% of the seafood it consumes. Offshore fish farming has come to dominate wild harvest in recent decades, with farmed salmon making up 80% of global salmon supply. By Eric Tegethoff
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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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