The B.C. salmon farming industry

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...

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Bibliographic Details
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
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Summary: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 operating marine sites, and many more are under investigative permit or being developed. This is an electronic version of an article published as: Pennell, W. (1988). The B.C. salmon farming industry. Bulletin of the Aquaculture Association of Canada, 1, 5-20. The Bulletin of the Aquaculture Association of Canada is available at: http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/publications/bulletin-of-the-aac/. https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/2755/Pennell.Salmon.Farming.pdf?sequence=3

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