Fabian Dawson

A major UN report says aquaculture now supplies most seafood eaten worldwide, while Canadian production stagnates ahead of a federal decision on salmon farming in British Columbia.

British Columbia's salmon farmers have built the kind of First Nations and community alliances needed to defend jobs, food production and small-town economies, a keynote address to the inaugural B.C. Agriculture Forum highlighted.

British Columbia’s salmon farmers have built the kind of First Nations and community alliances needed to defend jobs, food production and small-town economies, a keynote address to the inaugural B.C. Agriculture Forum highlighted.

The world's largest salmon farmer has sold its Atlantic Canadian business as its West Coast operations remain under strategic review and caught in Ottawa's plan to end conventional ocean salmon farming by 2029.

As the first five families prepare to move into Nenagwas, the Tlowitsis First Nation's new home on Vancouver Island, Ottawa's plan to ban ocean salmon farming in British Columbia threatens to stall a homecoming more than five decades in the making.

Activist financier wants Ottawa to dismantle a major B.C. aquaculture sector, override coastal First Nations and gamble $2 billion in public money on a land-based salmon farming model with a long record of failure.

A bacterial disease found in captive Chinook is being used to implicate ocean salmon farms, despite no proof of a marine aquaculture source or harm to wild populations.

As Atlantic salmon prices jump more than 25 per cent, the federal government continues to sit on a policy that would slash domestic production, deepen Canada's reliance on seafood imports and weaken the country's food security.

As Falklanders Islanders weigh whether salmon farming could become a new economic pillar, two aquaculture specialists are drawing on British Columbia's experience to show how science, local knowledge and strong regulation can guide the choice.