cooke aquaculture

"Unacceptable fish handling incidents," says Cooke CEO

As an epidemic sea lice infestation at their industrial salmon farms in British Columbia rages unchecked, Mitsubishi-owned Cermaq company wants to bring up to 20 open-pen salmon fish farms to Nova Scotia, adding to the environmental dangers already posed by the massive expansion of New Brunswick-based multinational Cooke Aquaculture over recent years.

Many residents concerned

COOKE AQUACULTURE CEO, GLENN COOKE

Putting a round fish in a square net …. It does not work.

No fish escapes, says minister

Major damage suffered in January by Cooke Aquaculture industrial salmon farm, site 1358

When fences make bad neighbors...

"I plan on fighting this tooth and nail."

A member of Cooke Aquaculture's community liaison committee in Shelburne County, N.S., says the company needs to do a better job communicating with the public.