Oct. 29, 2024 Sheep Pass, Klemtu We are aware of an incident involving seal entanglement at one of our fish farming sites. We take this matter seriously and are working closely with the Kitasoo Nation and relevant authorities to understand how this occurred and to prevent similar incidents in the future. We are committed to...
Oct. 29, 2024 Bell Island, Port Hardy Over the summer, several Mowi Canada West (MCW) farms experienced higher then usual mortality caused by a prolonged bloom of a harmful Chaetocerous species of plankton. While MCW has robust plankton mitigation measures in place, this plankton bloom also impacted our ability to feed. The bloom subsided, water...
August 21, 2024 Bergen, Norway. During the company’s second quarter financial update today, Mowi CEO Ivan Vindheim announced a strategic review of the Canada West business unit in response to continuing uncertainty with respect to the government of Canada’s policy on salmon farming in British Columbia. The government decision in Canada West (BC) does not...
June 7, 2024 Today, Mowi Canada West, is disappointed to learn that we were not successful in the second judicial review of the federal government’s decision to not renew aquaculture licences in the Discovery Islands region, where we have sites located within the core traditional territory of the Laich-kwil-tach peoples. The applicants in this...
May 16, 2024 Despite the marine piscine reovirus (PRV) not being a health concern to wild or farm-raised salmon in British Columbia, salmon farmers test their salmon regularly to ensure salmon populations transferred to sea from freshwater hatcheries are PRV free. There are millions of viruses found in a single drop of seawater and most...
November 7, 2023 For the fifth consecutive year, Mowi has been ranked the world’s most sustainable animal protein producer by the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index. The Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index is the most detailed assessment of the largest meat, dairy and farm-raised fish producers in the world. Rankings for each of the 60...
July 12, 2023 Poseidon Ocean Systems and Mowi Canada West have combined forces to install and test novel technologies at its (Mowi’s) Monday Rock salmon farm off Vancouver Island to improve fish welfare and performance and reduce interactions between wild and farm-raised fish. As part of ongoing innovation to reduce interactions with the surrounding environment, Mowi’s...
April 26, 2023 On April 26, CHEK News published a story about a truck carrying fuel that slipped off a barge. For clarity, the truck was not carrying fuel for Mowi Canada West and the incident did not happen at any of our farms or facilities. Unfortunately, the truck had drifted near to one of...
March 23, 2023 Mowi is pleased to publish its 2022 annual report, downloadable online at https://mowi.com/investors/reports/. Mowi is the world’s largest Atlantic salmon farmer with 20% of the global market share and is ranked as number one on both market capitalization and sustainability. In 2022, 11,500 Mowi professionals produced of 464,000 tonnes for 70+ markets...
February 17, 2023 Minister Joyce Murray’s decision not to issue salmon aquaculture licences in the Laich-kwil-tach territory, referred to as the Discovery Islands region of British Columbia, is a further blow to BC’s largest agricultural export and for all of the coastal British Columbia communities that rely on salmon farming as a primary economic driver....
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