Fabian Dawson

As Canada curtails salmon production at home and spends a record $1 billion on imports, shipments from China are surging despite the country having virtually no salmon industry of its own.

British Columbia wild salmon-runs rise and fall for complex reasons. But for anti-fish farming activists, every boom and bust somehow leads back to the same target.

New audited data from 11 global producers shows the salmon farming industry's steep declines in the use of antibiotics and medication to treat sea lice.

Province raises the future of salmon farming on Canada's West Coast as a priority during national fisheries ministers meeting in Victoria.

Activist financier, Tony Allard says a Trudeau-era plan to eliminate ocean salmon farming in British Columbia by 2029 advances reconciliation. Coastal First Nations that host the farms see something very different.

The federal government is investing millions in First Nations-led hatcheries to produce more salmon while pursuing a policy that would dismantle another Indigenous-backed form of salmon production on the B.C. coast.

Nearly a decade after Dominic Barton's economic council urged Canada to seize its aquaculture opportunity, his return as chair of Invest in Canada is renewing hope that the sector could finally get the policy certainty needed to attract new capital and expand.

The upcoming Cold Harvest Conference brings Canada's multi-billion-dollar seafood farming sector together as Ottawa seeks new investment, pushes domestic food production and faces a defining choice over the future of B.C. salmon farming.

Multinational aquaculture companies fear Ottawa's plan to ban salmon farming in British Columbia could spread east, creating a “broader investment chill” across Atlantic Canada, according to a new report.

Mayor Kermit Dahl, chair of the Alliance of Resource Communities, says Ottawa has made its decision on the future of salmon farming in B.C. and must make it public, warning that further delay threatens jobs, investment and First Nations partnerships.