tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395224253527589062011-11-27T16:45:44.224-08:00A site to learn all about Salmon farming from a farmers perspective. Learn about plankton, harvesting, sea lice sampling and more. Awesome pictures of pristine ocean coastline and wildlife. Will answer any questions as quickly as possible.Luke Jodouinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734479470694788274noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339522425352758906.post-54881356443954811702009-05-14T12:14:00.000-07:002009-05-17T14:46:10.149-07:00

Plankton blooms are common in the worlds oceans. Plankton is found in the ocean throughout the year. Blooms are caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, microscopic plants that float in the sunlit layers of the ocean. In winter, the water is cool and the daylight is short. This keeps plankton populations low. In the spring and summer, water is warm and there is lots of daylight hours.Blooms

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What is a sea louse?Sea lice are small marine parasites commonly associated with salmon. There are 13 different species of sea lice found on the coast of British Columbia. Although large numbers of sea lice are usually associated with fish farming, sea lice originated from wild fish and, as early as 1940, long before the development of fish farming, there were reports of high numbers of lice

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Types of Salmon Grown in Canada.Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar),Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)and Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) are the main species of salmon farmed in Canada. Salmon farms can be found in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick.Farms get their smolts from Freshwater Hatcheries.Hatcheries nuture baby salmon in temperature controlled environments until it

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Plankton are tiny organisms that either move, drift or float about in the water. To classify plankton we can separate it into two groups: Zooplankton and Phytoplankton. Zooplankton eat other things, they are considered animal plankton. Phytoplankton on the other hand are photosynthetic and are considered plant plankton. We are going to focus on Phytoplankton as it is the most cause for concern to

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I have just joined flickr, so I have uploaded pictures there to check out.Photo GalleryNow I'm going to show you some of the fish we catch during our off time. We get to fish in pristine ocean waters, watch whales and dolphins go by, not too mention catch all types of fish.Last year I was fishing off of the system a little and caught what I thought was a small rock cod, well all of a sudden my

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With harvesting done on the farm, its time to do a major clean up. Nets and predator nets have recently been removed. Twelve hundred pound weights and chain weights have been surfaced. Loads of scrap rope to clean up. Bubble mats are hanging insides the empty pens and ready to dry out. Everything needs to be pressure washed and cleaned. Then it will be time to setup for smolts after fouling for

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Harvesting Atlantic Salmon in 100'x100' steel pens takes a large seine boat, 2 salmon farmers, gear and knowledge. The idea is to get a certain amount of fish, out of the pens and into a seine boat with minimal stress on the fish and the seine boat leaving on time to get to the plant with a full load.Ideally, you would have all the gear in place and ready before the boat shows up. That means

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Alot of people on the coast of B.C are against farming Atlantic Salmon. I think that alot of people are not considering the main word, "farming" and also not considering that North America would not have chicken nor cattle if not for "farming". Most people dont go to their local market or restaurant and ask if that chicken or steak is farmed. So why does it happen with Salmon? I have been working

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