Why do most BC salmon farms raise Atlantic salmon and not native Pacific species?
Good question. Farming Atlantic salmon in Norway began in the 1970s. By the mid 1980s Norwegian companies began expanding their operations to BC waters due to our physical geography, and the introduction of production limits and controls in Norwegian waters. The influx of Norwegian operators meant the importation of the Norwegian species of choice—Atlantic salmon (Volpe, 2006). In Super Un-Natural (2001), Dr.
