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By SeafoodSource staff
19 May, 2009 - The Pure Salmon Campaign, an international coalition advocating higher standards for farmed salmon, announced that beginning Monday and continuing for 10 days it will meet with a variety of Cermaq stakeholders in Norway to provide accounts of environmental threats linked to salmon farming.

The group will be discussing issues that threaten wild salmon populations including current practices used by Cermaq, the world’s second largest farmed salmon producer. In Canada, Pure Salmon contends the company’s open net farms interfere with wild salmon’s migratory paths and act as incubators for parasites such as sea lice.

The Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry hold 43.5 percent of Cermaq shares.

“Studies have exposed the problems of Cermaq’s salmon farms for years,” said Andrea Kavanagh of the Pew Environment Group, a member of the coalition. “It’s time for Norway to step up to the plate and hold Cermaq accountable to strict environmental standards.”

In addition to meeting with Norwegian-based stakeholders, including Members of Parliament, scientists, river owners and fishermen, representatives of the Pure Salmon Campaign will attend Cermaq’s annual general meeting in Oslo on Wednesday, 20 May. 

The coalition has also submitted two shareholder resolutions to Cermaq.  The first resolution requests the establishment of a special board committee to review environmental practices and the second asks the company to produce a yearly corporate social responsibility report, such as a review of the firm's environmental record. 

The Pure Salmon Campaign is a global coalition with partners in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Chile that works to improve the way farmed salmon is produced.

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