RESOURCES
Everything you should know about open-net pen aquaculture and the industry, in Nova Scotia and beyond.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
​2016 - Industrial aquaculture and the politics of resignation. Marine Policy, Elsevier Ltd. Benjamin Rigby, Reade Davis, Dean Bavington, Christopher Baird. Memorial University of Newfoundland
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2016 - Contentious mobilities and Cheap(er) Labour: Temporary Foreign Workers in a New Brunswick Seafood Processing Community Canadian Journal of Sociology. Christine Knott.
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2014 - A New Regulatory Framework for Low-Impact/High-Value Aquaculture in Nova Scotia.The Final Report of the Independent Aquaculture Regulatory Review for Nova Scotia Meinhard Doelle and William Lahey (2014)​
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Land Based RAS and Open Pen Salmon Aquaculture: Comparative Economic and Environmental Assessment
The Conservation Fund.
NEWS, VIDEO & DOCUMENTARY
2024 - Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation by Patagonia Films
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​2019 - Artifishal, produced by Patagonia​
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2019 - CBC's Here & Now on salmon farming in Newfoundland
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2018 - To the Journey's End: the Lifecycle of Wild Salmon, by Bernard Martin
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2017 - Are fish farms pushing wild salmon towards extinction? Produced by CTV-W5
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2017 - Salmon Science: Understanding the Principle of Infectious Disease in Wild Salmon Declines (Lecture), by Dr. Kristi Miller
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2016 - ABC's 4 Corners on salmon farming in Australia
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2015 - An introduction to Nova Scotia's Sustainable Blue and land-based salmon farming
2014 - Fillet Oh Fish, by Nicolas Daniel
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2013 - Salmon Confidential, by Twyla Roscovitch and Alex Morton
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2012 - Salmon Wars, by Silver Donald Cameron and Chris Beckett
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2009 - The End of the Line, produced by Dartmouth Films
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2004 - The Last Weir, by Tim Wilson
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OP-EDS & MAGAZINE
May 28, 2024 - The Narwhal
‘It could be very damaging’: feds worried about fallout of Atlantic salmon farm risk report
Moira Donovan
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April 7, 2020 - The Chronicle Herald
Politicians can’t evade aquaculture responsibility
Daryl Gray
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April 1, 2020 - The Chronicle Herald
Why don’t politicians listen to fish farm opposition?
Katherine Feiel
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March 20, 2020 - The Chronicle Herald
End looms for open-pen salmon farms — time for Atlantic Canada to get on board
Ralph Surette
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March 9, 2020 - The Chronicle Herald
Take it from a reluctant ‘activist’: aquaculture a noxious industry
​Cora Swinamer
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​January 31, 2020 - The Chronicle Herald
Five knocks against farming salmon along Nova Scotia coast
Helga Guderley
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​January 15, 2020 (p 13) - Masthead News
Twin Bays Coalition Says “No!” to Open-Net Pens
Geoff Le Boutillier (St. Margaret’s Bay) & Syd Dumaresq (Mahone Bay)