Tag Archives: Cooke Aquaculture
Canadian Food Inspection Agency orders Cooke Aquaculture ISA infected salmon destroyed
Cooke Aquaculture is shutting down its Harbour Breton salmon processing plant in the wake of an order by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to destroy a large number of its ISA-infected salmon, CBC News has learned. more@cbcnews 22:25
Cooke Aquaculture’s escaped farmed salmon a major concern, says Opposition critic – Number of escapees estimated to be better than 50,000
Liberal fisheries critic Jim Bennett says a recent incident of Cooke Aquaculture’s farmed salmon escaping from into Hermitage Bay compounds concern over an earlier escape on the Garnish River. Bennett said in a news release, he’s been informed that the number is closer to 50,000 rather than the reported 20,000. more@thetelegram 16:36
Major salmon escape at a Cooke aquaculture site in Hermitage Bay – The Fisheries Broadcast with Jamie Baker
Cooke Aquaculture says it lost up to 20,000 salmon from a sea cage on the south coast last week. The company said high tide and unusually strong currents caused the upset of a cage in Hermitage Bay on Sept. 18. thefisheriesbroadcast 09:05
Cooke Aquaculture is preparing to build a new hatchery at Mink Cove, Digby Neck
And the firm’s Truro feed mill is now churning out thousands of tonnes of fish feed every year, said Chuck Brown, communications manager with Cooke Aquaculture. Every week, 320 tonnes of salmon feed come to Digby from the Truro feed mill, he said. That’s 10 tractor-trailer loads every week or 12,500 tonnes per year. more@chronicleherald 08:04
Concerns about feeding changes at Cooke Aquaculture’s Jordan Bay salmon farms are unfounded, say’s Cooke Aquaculture
“It’s purely a case of people who don’t understand our business,” Nell Halse said in an interview Wednesday from Trondheim, Norway. Well Nell, seems people understand a little more than you give them credit for! From the comment’s: The big problem Nell Halse and Cooke are facing is that Nova Scotians actually now understand the industry only too well- from feces polluted bays and illegal use of pesticides, to sales of infected fish. more@chronicleherald
Cooke Aquaculture to pay $490,000 after illegal pesticides kill lobsters in Canada
A Canadian firm that is a subsidiary of the largest aquaculture operator in Maine pleaded guilty Friday in a Canadian courtroom to using illegal pesticides that killed hundreds of lobsters a little more than a mile from Maine’s border. continued
Cooke’s first salmon harvest – to be displayed at the Boston Seafood Show
Hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon are being sucked from their pens in the first ever harvest of fish from a Cooke Aquaculture site in St. Marys Bay. He then opened a box to reveal a silver-sided salmon on ice, the first fish harvested and now ready to be displayed this weekend at the Boston Seafood Show. Read more
