Salmon hystaria

[horshur]

Have any of you bought canned salmon at save on foods? Have you looked at country of origin and where it was canned? Vietnam no shit! Anyway all the railing against the dfo and first nations..foaming at the mouth against resource extraction ad nauseam. And sockeye salmon is canned for the USA in Vietnam. Where did all the fish go??? They dredged the ocean. So is it really BC's bad management? Or is the dfo tired of subsidizing the USA's fishing fleet?

[Rayne]

You think that’s bad wait till everyone catches wind of the First Nations getting to bet the vedder for the coho run in a few weeks. Rumour has it they can net from the mouth to vedder bridge

[goatdancer]

Have any of you bought canned salmon at save on foods? Have you looked at country of origin and where it was canned? Vietnam no shit! Anyway all the railing against the dfo and first nations..foaming at the mouth against resource extraction ad nauseam. And sockeye salmon is canned for the USA in Vietnam. Where did all the fish go??? They dredged the ocean. So is it really BC's bad management? Or is the dfo tired of subsidizing the USA's fishing fleet?

Is the fish from Vietnam or the canning being done in Vietnam?

[Fella]

There are salmon that run on that side of the pacific. Could be caught near japan or could be farmed

[nitro hunter]

The last/only cannery on the coast is St Jeans in nanaimo so ive been told,Take a look at a can of Moneys Mushrooms-Yup product of China.

[MichelD]

The Canadian Fishing company closed its cannery in Rupert five years ago putting 500 people out of lucrative seasonal work and now freeze their sockeye and send it to China for canning.

The company has operations in Alaska too.

I'd bet you $100 that is what the U.S. is doing with its Alaska sockeye too, having it canned in Vietnam.

[adriaticum]

Interesting article
https://e360.yale.edu/features/hatch-22_the_problem_with_the_pacific_salmon_resurgence


The number of salmon in the Pacific Ocean is twice what it was 50 years ago. But there is a downside to this bounty, as growing numbers of hatchery-produced salmon are flooding the Pacific and making it hard for threatened wild salmon species to find enough food to survive.


BY BRUCE BARCOTT - NOVEMBER 1, 2010




In 1970, hatcheries released 500 million young salmon. By 2008, that figure had jumped to 5 billion.

[boxhitch]

Does it even hit shore or is it processed in one of those giant floating processing plants?

[weatherby_man]

As Nitro said above St Jeans is still in business. Rainforest tuna/salmon is still canned there. Majority FN owned company that is trying to keep this going in Canada - at least someone is. I can attest to the very high quality of that product. Its expensive yes but at least its made in Canada. This could be a conundrum for some of us but at least there is a choice to buy Canadian.

For mushrooms, Presidents Choice is the only one I can find that is still made in Canada. Again pricer, but its the only canned shrooms I will buy.