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Fundy Baykeeper on sustainable land-raised Atlantic salmon

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Matt Abbott, the Fundy Baykeeper, spoke with reporters for an article about Nova Scotia-based company Sustainable Blue selling its first order of land-raised Atlantic salmon on the market. Abbott said he was pleased to see the company getting its sustainable products to market and hoped the advancements in closed containment technology would mean much fewer open-net […]

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TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline: Too Much Risk for the Bay of Fundy-Gulf of Maine

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy, Feature / Matthew Abbott

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released a report on the potential impacts of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project on the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine. The report explores the many risks to whales and other wildlife in the Bay of Fundy as well as the risk to sustainable jobs in New Brunswick, Nova

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Fishers, fishers associations, and scientists testify before DFO Senate Committee Meeting

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON — Proposed new aquaculture regulations will face scrutiny before a senate committee meeting today after a coalition of fishers, fishing associations, business leaders and scientists have said the changes would harm marine environments and wild fisheries such as salmon and lobster. The Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, will be watching

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Fundy Baykeeper on proposed new aquaculture regulations

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, was one of 120 signatories on a letter written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling on him to scrap proposed new aquaculture regulations that would harm fisheries in Atlantic Canada and across the country. The proposed regulations will exempt the aquaculture industry from provisions of the Fisheries Act that deal with the

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Broad Coalition to Prime Minister: Do Not Allow Proposed Environmentally Damaging Aquaculture Activities Regulations

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Halifax, NS — Business leaders, commercial and recreational fishing associations, scientists, lawyers and environmentalists are calling on Prime Minister Harper to halt the implementation of the proposed Aquaculture Activities Regulations. The changes will exempt the aquaculture industry from the Fisheries Act provisions that “prohibit the release of deleterious substances into water frequented by fish.” Despite broad-based

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CCNB’s Inka Milewski gives Senate Fisheries Committee a reality check on Aquaculture Regulation in Canada

CCNB Blog / Matthew Abbott

CCNB’s Science Advisor, Inka Milewski, recently presented before the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans concerning their study into the ‘regulation of aquaculture, current challenges and future prospects for the industry in Canada.’ Inka challenged the claim that Canadian aquaculture is over-regulated by comparing the regulation of aquaculture to other industries and to the regulatory regimes for

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CCNB presents research on sea-bottom pollution under salmon farm

CCNB in the News / Matthew Abbott

The Chronical Herald covers a public presentation by CCNB’s Science Advisor Inka Milewski concerning the recovery of the sea-bottom at an abandoned salmon farm in Shelburne Harbour, NS. “It’s not a good news story, because we don’t have recovery,” Milewski said this week in Shelburne. … “It’s the organic material, primarily the feces of the

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Groups call for end to public bailouts for open-pen salmon feedlots

Media Releases / Matthew Abbott

For Immediate Release March 19, 2014 Halifax, NS; St Andrews, NB – Communities and conservation organizations are alarmed at the significant public dollars that have been spent on subsidizing poor fish farming practices in Atlantic Canada. In the last two decades, almost $139 million taxpayer dollars have been spent on “compensating” open-net pen fish farms

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Report from court: illegal aquaculture pesticide case

CCNB Blog, Feature / Matthew Abbott

There has been a shadow hanging over Canada’s largest salmon farming company since lobsters were found dead near Bay of Fundy salmon farms in 2009. A subsequent investigation by Environment Canada found that these lobsters had been killed by cypermethrin, a pesticide not approved for use on salmon farms in Canada. In November of 2011

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Nova Scotia Fish Farms Impacting Environment: Report

Feature, Media Releases / Stephanie Merrill

Full report available here Halifax: Seven years after the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (NS DFA) issued their first and only report on environmental monitoring at aquaculture sites in the province, an updated report indicates that open pen finfish farms are having a negative impact on the environment. According to the new report, there

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