• Healthy Fish
  • Life Cycle of Farmed Salmon
  • Salmon Breeding
  • Improved Feeds
  • Salmon Farm Management
  • Salmon Health Management
  • Infectious Salmon Anemia
  • Sea Lice
  • Aquaculture Bay Management Areas
• Quality Assured
  • Introduction
  • The Healthy Salmon Program
  • The Quality Management Program
  • Traceability Program
  • Farmed Salmon: Safety Approved
  • Farmed Salmon is Safe
  • Carotenoids: Essential for Normal Growth and Development
• Healthy Communities
  • Healthy Communities
• Healthy Industry
  • Healthy Industry
  • Canadian Production of Atlantic Salmon
  • New Brunswick Production
• Delicious/Nutritious
  • Why are so many people choosing farmed salmon?
  • Availability
  • Affordable
  • Consistent High Quality
  • Versatility
  • Convenient
  • Nutritious
  • Buying and Storing Farmed Salmon
  • Cooking Farmed Salmon
  • Cooking Method Determines Type of Seasoning
• Healthy Environment
  • Sustainability through Cooperation
  • Site Selection and Monitoring
  • Healthy Sites
  • Feed Monitoring
  • Improved Feed Digestibility Reduces Waste
  • Sustainable Management of Wild Populations
  • Fish Containment

Salmon Farmers Invest in Green Technology

Press Release Well Boat Will Reduce Therapeutant Use and Improve Sea Lice Management St George – The Ronja Carrier, chartered from the Norwegian company Solvtrans, will be in the Bay of Fundy for the next six months to help salmon farmers control sea lice on salmon farms. Salmon will be carefully pumped from the farm enclosure into the hold of the well boat where they will be immersed in a mixture of seawater and approved therapeutant to remove sea lice, a naturally occurring parasite. Fish are then returned to their enclosure. ....View More

NB Salmon Farmers Trigger Over Half A Billion Dollars of Economic Activity Across Canada

Press Release St. George, NB – Based on three key indicators – GDP, employment and labour income a new socio-economic report commissioned by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans demonstrates how the Canadian aquaculture industry generates over $2 billion annually for the national economy with New Brunswick triggering over half a billion dollars of economic activity across Canada. ....View More

Sea Lice Research Development Workshop Report Jan 2010

In 2009 NB DAA, in support of the aquaculture industry, applied to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for the Emergency Registration (ER) of two bath treatments, ALPHA MAX® and Salmosan®, as alternatives to SLICE® for sea lice treatment. ....View More

Healthy Industry

With easy access to oceans once believed to hold an endless supply of wild fish, few North Americans ever considered that anyone would need to "farm" fish. Yet people throughout much of the world have a long history of fish farming. Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Mayans, Aztecs, Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese and many other sophisticated civilizations farmed finfish and shellfish and aquatic plants. As each of these civilizations grew, local populations of wild animals were exploited until hunting and fishing could no longer supply the population’s food requirements. Only through the domestication and farming of plants and animals could these civilizations grow and flourish.


In today’s global society, we face a similar situation. The world population has reached 6 billion and it is predicted that it will expand by another 2 billion before 2030. As a result of this growing population - as well as the fact that people are eating more fish - the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations predicts that there will be a 25% increase in global demand for seafood by 2030. With the decline of many of the wild fisheries, this growing demand for seafood products can only be supplied by fish farming. While farmed fish products currently account for approximately one-third of the total fish landed globally, the FAO estimates that by 2030 over half of the fish consumed by the world’s population will be produced by fish farms.