Please help stop the certification of farmed salmon as "sustainable", "environmental", "social" and "responsible".
Sign onto a letter to WWF opposing farmed salmon standards - to read the letter and for more details click onto "Salmon Farming: No Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing"
There already over 400 people signed on from around the world but we'd like to reach over 1000 people by next Tuesday (the deadline for public comment is 14th June).
The final draft of the "Standards for Responsible Salmon Aquaculture" (which appear to have been written by the salmon farming industry) would shamefully allow:
- use of antibiotics
- use of toxic chemicals such as cypermethrin and emamectin benzoate
- killing of wildlife including marine mammals
- transgenic plants including GM soya in feed
- sea lice infestation
- the spread of infectious diseases
- the farming of non-native species such as Atlantic salmon in the Pacific
- escapes
- unsustainable and non-certified fish feed
- waste pollution and chemical contamination
- copper-treated nets and biocides
- mortality rates of 20%
- deaths of workers
The proposed standard also ignores fish welfare and food safety issues although it is presented by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council as a "credible consumer label".
You can also sign a petition online via: Stop the Certification of Farmed Salmon as "Sustainable" and "Responsible"
Please feel free to forward this message – the more names signed on opposing farmed salmon standards and certification the better.
If you want to sign on please just email your name, location and any affiliation to Don Staniford (dstaniford@gaaia.org) by late Monday (13th June).
Best fishes,
Don
