Diver airlifted from Northern Harvest Sea Farms site in Fortune Bay, stop-work order issued

October 7, 2019 Canada

Northern Harvest Sea Farms hired several dive teams to empty its open-net pens, following a massive fish die-off that left thousands of pounds of salmon to rot. In a statement Monday morning, a spokesman for Northern Harvest Sea Farms said the divers are employed by third-party companies, and one of those companies reported an incident requiring occupational health and safety to get involved. The suspension of dive operations is a serious blow to ongoing clean-up efforts, but the company insists its “clean-up activity can continue despite dive activity being temporarily stopped.” >click to read< 08:21

Diver airlifted, Fish Farm, in Fortune Bay, Northern Harvest Sea Farms, stop-work order issued

One Response to Diver airlifted from Northern Harvest Sea Farms site in Fortune Bay, stop-work order issued

Joel Hovanesian says:

October 8, 2019 at 9:47 am

Just another example of why farm raised fish suck. How long until an agency peeks behind the curtain of this shit show and exposes a whole host of issues and problems related to this ill advised industry.
DEMAND WILD CAUGHT LOCAL AMERICAN SEAFOOD.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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