The B.C. salmon farming industry

• Main Author: Pennell, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Aquaculture Association of Canada 1988
• Subjects: Salmon farming > British Columbia; Chinook salmon; Coho salmon; Atlantic salmon > British Columbia; Rainbow trout; Pink salmon; Sockeye salmon; Chum salmon; Canada; British Columbia; Sockeye; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/2755

Oyster and trout farming have a much longer history, but it is salmon farming that has raised the profile of aquaculture on the West Coast. Salmon farming has had a brief but dramatic history. In 1971 the first salmon farm license was issued in B.C. Today there are more than 100 companies with 130 o...