Alarming increase in pesticide chemicals used on farmed salmon. - 7 Feb 2011  
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A recent British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) investigation evaluating Scottish Environmental Protection Agency records revealed a dramatic increase in potentially harmful pesticide use in salmon farming. Although the salmon farming industry grew 11.3% since 2005, the range of toxic chemicals used to control sea lice increased 163% during the same time period, raising concern among environmental groups over the threat to both human and marine life.

The use of pesticides also indicates the industry's struggle to control infestation levels, foreshadowing the spread of sea lice to wild fish. This in turn would lead to further declines in salmon and sea trout populations, with scientists having already expressed concern for the threat of their extinction.

Association of Salmon Boards' spokesperson Andrew Wallace stated, “... If you have a million farmed fish in a cage on the migratory route of those fish, then suddenly you're encountering an entirely different scale of problem. And the numbers of lice coming off of these farms is horrendous at times.”

Moreover, these findings come just as the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA) launched the worldwide campaign “Salmon Farming Kills,” hoping to raise awareness of the dangers of the industry and its adverse health effects on humans, oceans, and wild fish. As stated by Don Staniford, global coordinator for GAAIA in British Columbia, Canada, “Salmon farming kills around the world and should carry a global health warning.”

Our thanks, British Broadcasting Corporation and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture, for raising awareness of the increasing harms posed by salmon and other fish farming to all life. May our expanded understanding speed the elimination of fish consumption altogether, for the health and sustainability of the Earth's waterways and all interrelated beings.

Speaking with concern during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the detrimental impacts and the need to halt the practice of fish farming for the protection of our co-inhabitants as well as humans and the planet as a whole.
The farmed fish are contained in big netted areas off the ocean shores with uneaten food, fish waste, antibiotics, or other drugs and chemicals that pass into the surrounding waters where they harm our ecosystems and polluted our drinking sources. Depleting wild fish stocks also.

Studies have found that for every kilo of salmon that is sold in a supermarket, four kilos of wild fish have to be caught to feed the salmon.

These are just a few of the problems associated with fish farming, which have become bigger as the fishing has increased.

This is an equally urgent situation as the one presented by livestock industry, and it has the exact same solution. Stop eating the flesh; stop killing for food; stop eating the fish. This will help restore the balance of both the ocean and land, immediately.
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