 Organic Aquaculture News and Links
AQUACULTURE NEWS & OPINION for the past year
- Stories are selected with Canadian organic farmers in mind but are not intended to reflect our views pro or con.
- While we update these links from time to time, you may find some articles withdrawn or expired.
Canadian stories 
Science Daily - January 2, 2009.
Aquaculture's Growth Seen As Continuing
The assessment, by James S. Diana of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, notes that despite well-publicized concerns about some harmful effects of aquaculture, the technique may, when practiced well, be no more damaging to biodiversity than other food production systems.
Full text
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - December 26, 2008.
Campbell's doomed policies on fish farming will be a tough sell to voters
With killer whale populations dropping in the Strait of Georgia, in a large part because of a lack of salmon to feed on, with grizzly bears starving because salmon spawning runs have failed to materialize, and with sports, commercial and native fisheries largely closed coast-wide, there can be little doubt that B.C. is experiencing an environmental crisis.
Full text
Janice Karin, The Future of Things - December 12, 2008.
Robotic Fish Cages
The cages operate when both fully or partially submerged, retain their size and shape in strong currents or undertow, making them well suited for a wide variety of uses.
Full text
Innovations Report (Germany) - December 8, 2008.
Intestinal health in salmon fed a plant-based diet
Replacing marine ingredients with plant-based ingredients exposes fish to a series of 'foreign' components, for example, starch and anti-nutrients that may upset natural processes occurring in the intestine.
Full text
Sara Michael, Baltimore Examiner - November 27, 2008.
Scientists develop technique for sustainable fish farming
These fully contained tanks are Zohar’s response to floating net pens suspended off the coast in open water, a habitat for farming fish that Zohar and others say isn’t the best option for the fish or the environment.
Full text
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - November 26, 2008.
Fish to be raised in ocean cages
An Australian first aquaculture trial will take place off the coast of Western Australia next year.
Full text
Times Colonist (Victoria) - November 25, 2008.
Too many delays on fish farm rules
Those cheap farmed salmon that are damaging the natural environment in such places as B.C.'s Inside Passage are the first to get this easier 'organic' standard.
Full text
Rick Attig, The Oregonian - November 23, 2008.
Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting
Those cheap farmed salmon that are damaging the natural environment in such places as B.C.'s Inside Passage are the first to get this easier 'organic' standard.
Full text
Jerry Harkavy, AP - November 23, 2008.
Maine salmon industry mounts a vigorous comeback
Cooke Aquaculture has adopted a number of changes, including preventing the growth of pathogens that cause deadly illness in fish by allowing saltwater pens to lie fallow after fish are harvested.
Full text.
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - November 22, 2008.
Organic label may elude B.C. salmon farmers
British Columbia salmon farmers' reliance on a foreign species, Atlantic salmon, may prove costly for them in the United States.
Full text.
Walter Cordery, The Nanaimo Daily News (BC) - November 21, 2008.
Groups fear expansion of fish farms
A coalition of environmental groups is sounding the alarm about the provincial government allowing some fish farm operators to greatly increase the size of their operations.
Full text.
Juliet Eilperin and Jane Black, Washington Post - November 20, 2008.
USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic'
For the first time, a federal advisory board has approved criteria that clear the way for farmed fish to be labeled 'organic', a move that pleased aquaculture producers even as it angered environmentalists and consumer advocates.
Full text.
Scientific American - November 20, 2008.
Farmed fish can be organic, too, ag advisors say
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advisory panel says that producers should be allowed to slap organic labels on farmed fish even if their diets include wild fish and other feed that isn’t organic itself - definitions that environmentalists say depart from the criteria for other certified organic animal food products.
Full text.
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - November 20, 2008.
Environmentalists worried by fish-farm sector's push for expanding facilities
The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform released Ministry of Agriculture and Lands documents that show two companies have filed applications for permits to increase productivity at more than 20 different farm sites.
Full text.
Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune - November 15, 2008.
World's salmon aquaculture industry leaders meet to develop standards
More than 80 of the world's salmon aquaculture industry stakeholders – including producers, NGO representatives, retailers, government representatives and scientists – met in Edinburgh this week to move forward with developing global standards for salmon aquaculture.
Full text.
Fish Update - November 14, 2008.
Organic definition for fish flounders
Under the proposed guidelines, wild fish will not make the grade as organic because the whole notion of 'wild' is at odds with the government's rigorous criteria for classifying organic livestock production.
Full text.
Travis Lupick, Georgia Straight - November 6, 2008.
Fish farm declaration sent to United Nations
A declaration has been sent to the United Nations claiming that current fish farming practices, such as those in British Columbia, are "ecologically devastating " and "threatening local food security ".
Full text.
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - October 31, 2008.
Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms
A stunning collapse of pink salmon runs on the British Columbia central coast is reopening a charged debate about the looming extinction of wild salmon that breed near fish farms.
Full text.
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - October 28, 2008.
Salmon farming outfit assailed for exceeding production quotas
Based on the ministry's recent annual compliance report on fin-fish aquaculture, the eight Mainstream farms exceeded production by 9,490 tonnes during the 2001-2003 cycle, and exceeded production by 13,594 tonnes in the 2004-2006 cycle -- roughly double its licenced limit.
Full text.
Westcoaster.ca - October 22, 2008.
Chamber Pushes For Closed-Containment Fund
Salmon farmers are approved to use Slice through the emergency drug release program, which allows the use of non-approved drugs when recommended by veterinarians for emergency situations.
Full text.
Canadian OH&S News - October 20, 2008.
PEI releases first-ever aquaculture guide
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward Island has released its first Aquaculture Safety Code of Practice.
Full text.
Walter Cordery, Nanaimo Daily News - October 10, 2008.
Impact of Slice still unknown
Salmon farmers are approved to use Slice through the emergency drug release program, which allows the use of non-approved drugs when recommended by veterinarians for emergency situations.
Full text.
Catherine Stewart, The Province - October 10, 2008.
B.C.'s salmon farmers given a free ride by our provincial 'regulators'
When the industry data does arrive in provincial offices the bureaucrats don't question the numbers.
Full text.
Ruth Salmon, The Province - October 8, 2008.
It's time we used the oceans for farming rather than for hunting
The Canadian aquaculture industry is governed by a framework of 73 pieces of federal and provincial legislation, making it one of the most strictly regulated industries in the world.
Full text.
Times Colonist (BC) - October 5, 2008.
Fishery needs better supervision
The two levels of government have divided things up so each can avoid taking responsibility.
Full text.
Fiona Morrow, Globe and Mail - September 30, 2008.
Fish-farm hearing tied in constitutional knots
At issue is whether federal or provincial governments have final say over tidal waters, hearing told.
Full text.
Larry Pynn, Canwest News Service - September 28, 2008.
Day in court begins for foes of B.C. salmon farming
Alexandra Morton heads to B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Monday for a four-day challenge of the provincial government's constitutional right to regulate and approve fish farm locations.
Full text.
Fiona Morrow, Globe and Mail - September 24, 2008.
A new breed of fish farming
Aquaculture has long been a target of environmentalists, but the critters at this operation in B.C. tick all the right eco-boxes.
Full text.
CBC News - September 23, 2008.
Salmon pulled from Bay of Fundy fish farm
Nell Halse, the company's communications director, said the tide has proved to be too high and the current too strong at the site.
Full text.
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - September 19, 2008.
Declining salmon runs blamed for wilderness tourism slump
Mr. Gunn blamed the fish-farming business, saying a heavy concentration of net pens in the Broughton Archipelago has created sea-lice epidemics which kill young salmon.
Full text.
Sarah Bush, WBUR (Boston) - September 9, 2008.
Dinner Bell at Woods Hole
They want to train fish to respond to a dinner bell after being let out into the wild, kind of like Pavlov's dogs, making them easier to harvest.
Full text.
Jennifer Dart, Westerly News - September 4, 2008.
Aquaculture company holds meeting in BC, hears from Ahousaht and ENGOs
The board of directors of a Norwegian aquaculture company with fish farms in Clayoquot Sound visited Vancouver Island last week and also met with a local First Nation.
Full text.
GreenBiz - September 2, 2008.
Whole Foods' Farmed Seafood Standards Reviewed
The Environmental Law Institute and The Ocean Foundation praised Whole Foods' recently published farmed seafood purchasing standards but also said the grocery chain could take steps to improve them, such as increasing transparency.
Full text.
Andrea Cohen, MIT - September 2, 2008.
MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming
A self-propelling underwater cage developed and recently tested by an MIT researcher could not only cut costs for offshore ocean-based fish farms but also aid the movement of such operations into the high seas, avoiding the user conflicts and compromised water quality of coastal zones.
Full text.
Keith Findlay, Aberdeen Press & Journal (Scotland) - August 14, 2008.
Way ahead for Scots aquaculture
A fresh start for Scotland's aquaculture industry was mapped out by Scottish Environment Minister Michael Russell yesterday.
Full text.
Elidh Davies, Aberdeen Press & Journal (Scotland) - August 12, 2008.
Anglers condemn debris left behind by fish farms giant Marine Harvest
An angling group is calling on the world’s biggest fish farming company to clean up its act and remove the debris that it left behind at a former fish farm in a Special Area of Conservation in Ardnamurchan.
Full text.
Fiona Anderson, Vancouver Sun - July 12, 2008.
Fish farms mostly follow rules
Almost 20,000 fish escaped from fish farms in British Columbia in 2007, and one farm failed to report an escape, according to the provincial government's annual report on compliance in the industry.
Full text.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - July 11, 2008.
Rising demand for farmed salmon
Peter Bender, from Huon Aquaculture, says its hatchery uses a new closed-loop water recirculation system, and will provide an additional one and a half million young salmon a year.
Full text.
Andrew MacLeod, TheTyee - July 9, 2008.
Tainted Water from UVic Fish Lab
During the spring, large volumes of untreated water laced with fish diseases were travelling from a University of Victoria laboratory used by a private company through the city's sewerage system and into the ocean, a situation that caused alarm among some employees.
Full text.
Benjamin Witte, Patagonia Times (Chile) - July 8, 2008.
NYT source bites back, slams Chile’s salmon industry
New York-based microbiologist Dr. Felipe Cabello this week offered a staunch defense of opinions he expressed earlier this year in the New York Times (NYT), which cited the scientist as saying salmon farms in Chile use excessive quantities of antibiotics.
Full text.
Steve Strand, Vancouver Sun - July 8, 2008.
Sea lice infestations need to be dealt with
In more than 30 years of research into fish biology, I have never seen such high levels of parasitism.
Full text.
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist - July 5, 2008.
Tanks touted as solution to salmon escapes
The provincial and federal governments want to explore closed containment tanks for salmon farms, but so far, research has failed to find any viable, cost-effective closed system.
Full text.
Jamie Komarnicki, Globe and Mail - July 5, 2008.
An ill wind is blowing for world's biggest salmon-farm company
The industry in B.C. has been the focus of strong interest over environmental impact, Chilean operations have come under scrutiny for social issues, and people in Norway have expressed concerns about escaped salmon and food-safety contamination.
Full text.
CBC News - July 3, 2008.
30,000 escaped farmed salmon raise concerns in B.C.
Some of the 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon that escaped yesterday near Campbell River have already been caught by anglers in the area, according to at least one experienced fishing guide working in the region.
Full text.
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - July 2, 2008.
Prolific photographer illustrates the stark decline of wild salmon and waterscapes in B.C.'s salmon farming wake
Judging by the images of wild and beautiful places posted on his web site, his experience in the Broughton helped shape his photography, which he pursues as 'a passionate amateur,' donating to charity whatever he makes from selling prints.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - June 24, 2008.
Sea lice research shows promising results
Further research into the heritability of resistance to sea lice infestations is being planned following promising laboratory-based results from a pilot trial involving the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Glasgow University, the Institute of Aquaculture, Stirling, and Landcatch Natural Selection (LNS), Alloa.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - June 10, 2008.
Chilean Government recommends salmon crisis measures
Environmental organisations and local fishermen groups have demanded such a study for years, arguing that salmon companies have stretched the capacity of Region X’s coastal waters beyond breaking point.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - June 3, 2008.
Chile: Antibiotics will be 'forbidden' in aquaculture
An international campaign aimed at forbidding the use of antibiotics in aquaculture was launched yesterday in Chile.
Full text.
Lisa Stiffler, Seattle Post Intelligencer - June 3, 2008.
B.C. farmed fish lower in mercury than wild
A study out today concludes that Canadian farmed salmon contains less mercury than wild salmon caught in nearby waters.
Full text.
Tarjei Kidd Olsen, IPS News - May 26, 2008.
Lousy Salmon Causes an Upset
Sea lice from Norwegian-run salmon farms are killing off vital wild salmon stocks in Canada and Chile, according to a delegation that visited Oslo last week.
Full text.
Science Alert (Australia & New Zealand) - May 22, 2008.
Tool to improve ocean aquaculture
A new automated tool that provides support for sea cage aquaculture managers in making crucial decisions about locating their sites and determining the number of fish that can be sustainably farmed is now available.
Full text.
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - May 7, 2008.
'Chain of legal actions' planned to fight fish farms
Alexandra Morton, an independent scientist who has spent most of the past decade researching the impact of fish farms on wild salmon, has joined forces with four groups in filing a petition that seeks to strike down all the aquaculture regulations B.C. has put in place over the past 20 years.
Full text.
The Fish Site - May 2, 2008.
USDA Hears Case for Insect Alternative
The insect-derived fish food is a high quality, sustainable protein is seen as a valuable and economically viable alternative to fishmeal currently used in farmed fish nutrition
Full text.
Fish Farmer - April 23, 2008.
TV programme to feature Canadian aquaculture project
An innovative Canadian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) project is due to feature as part of a National Geographic television series.
Full text.
Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun - April 21, 2008.
Governments share sea lice information, but not with public
Canada's department of fisheries and oceans last week confirmed participation in what seems to be a strangely low-profile plan to coordinate field experiments and hold meetings where scientists share knowledge, methods and experimental results.
Full text.
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola, Georgia Straight (BC) - April 15, 2008.
David Suzuki: Fishing for salmon answers
Many aquaculture operations are environmentally sound, especially those that separate farmed fish from wild fish, such as the contained tanks and pond systems used to farm species such as tilapia and turbot.
Full text.
The Fish Site - April 9, 2008.
Ocean Aquaculture Will Not Tackle Seafood Deficit
Fish Story examines seafood trade patterns and the track record of existing ocean fish farms to demonstrate how an expanded US ocean fish farming industry is not likely to reduce US dependence on seafood imports.
Full text.
Chris Genovali, Georgia Straight (BC) - April 3, 2008.
Calculating the true cost of salmon farming
A recent report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea suggests that deep-sea fish in the North Atlantic are being fished at more than twice the rate they can withstand to provide food for farmed salmon.
Full text.
Michael Wigan, The Telegraph (UK) - March 31, 2008.
Has salmon farming outgrown itself?
Salmon farming seems always in the news, disadvantageously.
Full text.
Rob Edwards, The Herald (Scotland) - March 30, 2008.
Salmon farming is a threat to healthy wild stocks
Study links sea lice from fish farms to deaths in migratory population.
Full text.
Visayan Daily Star, Phillipines - March 29, 2008.
Organic acquaculture pushed
Delegates at an Expert Forum on Organic Aquaculture advocated that tilapia, shrimps, milkfish and other aquaculture products in Negros Occidental will reach maximum growth if produced under environmental-friendly conditions with no pesticides and toxins, a press release from the forum organizers said.
Full text.
CBC News - March 27, 2008.
B.C. places moratorium on salmon farming on North Coast
A moratorium on salmon farming along British Columbia's North Coast has been put in place because of concerns about the potential impact on wild salmon stocks.
Full text.
Alexandra Morton, The West Coaster - March 27, 2008.
Clayoquot Sound Has Sea Lice
There were more larval free-swimming stage sea lice in the sample taken near the farm than I have ever collected in a single plankton tow in the Broughton Archipelago.
Full text.
Alexandra Morton, The West Coaster - March 27, 2008.
Clayoquot Sound Has Sea Lice
There were more larval free-swimming stage sea lice in the sample taken near the farm than I have ever collected in a single plankton tow in the Broughton Archipelago.
Full text.
Andrew Findlay, Georgia Straight (BC) - March 6, 2008.
B.C. tourism operators raise alarm over sea lice
The WTA is making three demands of government and the fish-farm industry: the immediate removal of farm fish from sensitive salmon migratory routes, with a commitment to relocate those farms in the future; a moratorium on new net-cage fish farms on the coast until peer-reviewed science shows 'minimal or no impact on wild fish stocks'; and a willingness to support the development and testing of new fish-farming technology.
Full text.
The Fish Site - February 28, 2008.
BC Salmon Farmers Welcome Federal Commitment
The support, which will be distributed over a 5 year term, was unveiled by Finance Minister Flaherty at the weekend and will be used to fund the continued development of sustainable production.
Full text.
The Province (BC) - February 24, 2008.
A sea-friendly way to farm fish
Closed containers are the wave of the future when it comes to farming salmon, according to AgriMarine Industries.
Full text.
MercoPress - February 23, 2008.
Marine Harvest lay-offs deepen salmon farming sector crisis
Directors at Marine Harvest in Chile, the largest salmon producer in the world, will begin to lay off nearly 1,200 workers in June to compensate for financial losses incurred as a result of an infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) viral outbreaks that took place is some of its production sites.
Full text.
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - February 21, 2008.
Environmentalists hatch plan to ferry wild salmon past fish farms
They are proposing to round up hundreds of thousands of young salmon emerging from a spawning river this spring, load them into boats, and shepherd them past fish farms that they say threaten wild species with sea lice infestations.
Full text.
Prince George Citizen, Canadian Press - February 20, 2008.
First Nations chief frustrated at government inaction on sea lice on B.C. coast
Chamberline wants the government to order fish farms in the area temporarily inactive for the migration, and half a dozen fish farms on the central coast closed for good.
Full text.
Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun - February 18, 2008.
'Friends' of fish farming should drop the cloak of denial
Studies by reputable scientists at reputable universities published in reputable journals say there's evidence of associations between fish farms, propagation of sea lice and declines of wild salmon.
Full text.
Brandon Sun / CP - February 11, 2008.
Salmon farms destroying wild salmon populations in Canada, Europe: study
The research by two Canadian marine biologists showed dramatic declines in the abundance of wild salmon populations whose migration takes them past salmon farms in Canada, Ireland and Scotland.
Full text.
Deutsche Welle (Germany) - February 11, 2008.
The craze for organic products has reached Germany's fish counters.
The consumption of fish in Germany has increased for the third time in a row - last year by over two percent - and the organic label has become a major factor in that trend.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - January 30, 2008.
Aquaculture standards consultation extended
The Global Aquaculture Alliance has extended the public comment period for its revised Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards development process to February 29.
Full text.
Fish Update - January 29, 2008.
Urgent change needed in aquaculture industry, says Greenpeace
'Challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability', which was presented to the 2008 Seafood Summit in Barcelona yesterday, documents how fish farming is damaging marine and freshwater ecosystems by destroying coasts to make way for ponds, polluting water with fecal waste and depleting wild fish caught for feed and farm stock, according to Greenpeace.
Full text.
ABC Rural (Australia) - January 28, 2008.
Farmed fish prices to skyrocket
Fish food is a mix of grains and fish meal and is vulnerable to world grain prices, as well as the increasingly expensive diesel used to transport it.
Full text.
Keven Drews, Westcoast News - January 21, 2008.
No Fish Farm Renewal; Wild Stocks at 'Alarming Levels'
The Ahousaht First Nation will ask one of B.C.’s largest aquaculture companies to relocate a Clayoquot Sound fish-farm raising Atlantic salmon.
Full text.
Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee - January 17, 2008.
Ministry Fish Farm Biologists Won't Be Penned
Aquaculture, which includes fish farming, will dominate the future world seafood industry, but there will be increased opportunities for wild products in the upper end of the market, a professor of economics says.
Full text.
Margaret Bauman, Anchorage Daily News - January 6, 2008.
Fish farms will stay, expert tells summit
Aquaculture, which includes fish farming, will dominate the future world seafood industry, but there will be increased opportunities for wild products in the upper end of the market, a professor of economics says.
Full text.
The Fish Site (UK) - December 19, 2007.
Soil Association standards top WWF study
The Soil Association’s organic fish farming standards scored 90 per cent and was ranked first in a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) study of 24 international aquaculture certification schemes.
Full text.
Science Daily - December 13, 2007.
Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Populations Toward Extinction
Parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction.
Full text.
Reuters - November 29, 2007.
Neptune Industries Addresses the National Organic Standard Board on Organic Seafood Certification Issues
The NOSB held the Organic Aquaculture Symposium to hear and review public comment on its current recommendations to the USDA for organic seafood certification standards.
Full text.
Ashley Gosk, Cox News Service (USA) - November 27, 2007.
Fish farms try to hook 'organic' label
The National Organics Standards Board opened a week of meetings Tuesday on the question of whether farmed fish should qualify for the federal government's official organic label.
Full text.
Charles Mandel, CanWest News Service - November 21, 2007.
Salmon farms hike parasite risk for wild fish: study
A new report contending that fish migration helps prevent the transmission of parasites -- such as sea lice on pink salmon - is the latest salvo in the battle between wild-salmon advocates and fish farmers.
Full text.
Santiago Times - November 21, 2007.
Marine Harvest to close diseased salmon farms in Chile
Hit hard by the so-called 'biological situation' in Chile, Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest - the world’s largest farmed salmon company - plans to close several Chilé-area farms and move operations south toward the less-crowded, disease-free waters of Region XI (Aysén).
Full text.
Fish Farmer - November 16, 2007.
Consultation on fish feed alternatives launched
NOAA and the US Department of Agriculture are soliciting information and ideas on ways to lessen dependence on fish-based feeds in the aquaculture industry.
Full text.
Stephen Rappaport, The Ellsworth American - November 15, 2007.
NOAA Announces 10-Year Plan for Marine Aquaculture
After two years of effort involving hundreds of bureaucrats, conservation advocates, scientists and fish farmers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last month published a 10-year blueprint for the development of a national marine aquaculture program.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - November 12, 2007.
Salmon farming impacts top agenda at Chile meeting
The meeting will review new reports about two of the main impacts of salmon aquaculture production: chemical inputs and nutrient loading/carrying capacity.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - November 9, 2007.
Canadian Government's aquaculture policy criticised
A group of British Columbia business people have placed an advert in a national newspaper criticising current Government aquaculture policy.
Full text.
Fish Farmer - November 9, 2007.
Standards lack credibility, says WWF
Conservation organisation WWF has today questioned the credibility of aquaculture standards being developed by GlobalGAP and the Global Aquaculture Alliance.
Full text.
Canadian Press / CBC - November 9, 2007.
Business group presses B.C. premier for salmon farm changes
A group of British Columbia business owners took a full-page ad in the first section of a national newspaper Friday hoping to pressure the provincial government to force changes in the salmon farming industry.
Full text.
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - November 1, 2007.
Record revenues generated from aquaculture industry
Canada's aquaculture industry generated record operating revenues of nearly $1 billion in 2006, and British Columbia was responsible for the majority of that figure, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday.
Full text.
PRNewswire-USNewswire, Press Release - November 1, 2007.
Coalition of More Than 40 Groups Sign Letter Urging That 'USDA Organic' Standards Be Upheld for Aquaculture
A coalition of concerned
advocates from 44 organizations have sent a message to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), urging caution as that body considers whether or not to weaken USDA Organic Standards, it was announced today.
Full text.
|
