For the Media

Press Releases

• Coalition of More Than 40 groups Urge that "USDA Organic" Standards Be Upheld For Aquaculture



• Second Annual Global Week of Action Unmasks Scary Truth Behind Farmed Salmon



• Statement: On the Resignation of Marine Harvest CEO Atle Aide



• Statement: On The Potential Outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) in Chilean Salmon Farms



• Statement: On the Scottish Salmon Farming Industry's Decision to Publish Online Monthly Escape Figures



• Statement: On New Chilean Government Initiatives to Combat Sea Lice



• Statement: On the FDA Banning Imported Farmed Fish from China



• Marine Harvest Ignores Shareholder Resolution, Refuses to Reform Company’s Executive Compensation Policies



• Cermaq Ignores Shareholder Resolution, Refuses to Clean Up Its Act



• Statement: Farmed Fish Eating Contaminated Fish Meal



• The Bush Administration Introduces an Open-Ocean Aquaculture Bill



• Fifty-one sea lions die at a Canadian fish farm



• Marine Harvest CEO Divests Fully from His Company



• USDA temporarily excludes farmed fish from "organic" standards — March 29, 2007



• Groups Praise Committee Recommendation to Exclude Farmed Salmon From Organic Standards — March 26, 2007



• American Consumers Being Misled by "Organic" Salmon Sold in the U.S. — March 12, 2007



• FTC Finds Farmed-Salmon Ad Misleading — February 16, 2007



• Massive Escapes From Norwegian Fish Farms — January 05, 2007



• Pan Fish/Marine Harvest merger — December 19, 2006



• "Global Week of Action" Exposes Hidden Costs of Farmed Salmon — October 09, 2006



• National Academy of Science finds Sea Lice from Salmon Farms have Devastating Effects on Wild Salmon — October 02, 2006



• New Study Shows How Current Chilean Farmed Salmon Industry Will Decimate Wild Fish Stocks — June 22, 2006



• Advocates for Salmon Aquaculture Reform File Shareholder Resolution at Pan Fish Annual General Meeting — May 29, 2006



• Fjord Shareholders Direct Board to Review Pure Salmon Reform Plan — May 4, 2006



• Cermaq Board Agrees to Review Pure Salmon Reform Plan — May 3, 2006



• Norwegian Report Finds Fault with Farmed Salmon Feed — March 28, 2006



• FTC Petition Slams Salmon Ad Promoting Unsafe Food to Pregnant Women — February 23, 2006



• Shareholders and Whistleblower Raise Concerns about Costco's Farmed-Raised Salmon — January 25, 2006

Video and Audio Clips

• Dr. Volpe Puts Sea Lice in Human Perspective ("...it would be the same as you having a fifty-pound lice chewing through your back.") [video clip: .mov, 2.8 megs]



• Dr. Volpe Describes Sea Lice [mp3, 123k]



• Dr. Volpe Explains Why Sea Lice Are a Problem [mp3, 112k]



• Dr. Volpe Puts Sea Lice in Human Perspective ("...it would be the same as you having a fifty-pound lice chewing through your back.") [mp3, 179k]



• Dr. Volpe Explains That We're Repeating the European Experience of Wild Salmon Population Declines [mp3, 168k]



• Dr. Volpe: Independent Science Agrees that Salmon Farms Are a Driving Force in the Decline of Wild Salmon Populations [mp3, 549k]



• Kavanagh Talks About the Boston Legal Episode and the Launch of the Pure Salmon Campaign [mp3, 177k]



• Kavanagh Gives a Synopsis of the Boston Legal Episode [mp3, 207k]



• Kavanagh Explains Campaign Goal of Healthy Farmed Salmon for the Public [mp3, 131k]

Attribution:

• Dr. John Volpe, Assistant Professor of Marine Systems Restoration and Conservation in the School of Environmental Studies; University of Victoria, British Columbia
• Andrea Kavanagh, Director, Salmon Aquaculture; National Environmental Trust

Photo Gallery

Factsheets

• Closed Containment: The Best Solution


• The Problem with Salmon Aquaculture


• Waste Contamination from Salmon Farms


• Diseases and Parasites in Farmed Salmon


• A Flawed Premise: Feeding Farmed Salmon


• Farmed Salmon and Human Health


• Labor Practices in the Farmed Salmon Industry


• Escaped Farm Salmon