Ending the Race for the Fish:
AIMS provides a primer on fish management that works.
Trust Agreements: Maximizing the value of the fishery.
In columns in the Chronicle-Herald and Times-Transcript, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley suggests that trust agreements show the way to a modern and efficient industry that creates value for coastal communities by maximizing the value the fishery can create.
Property rights work for the seabed too: AIMS at Submerged Lands Management conference
At the 23rd Annual International Submerged Lands Management Conference in Halifax, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was asked to present the arguments for a shift from traditional public ownership/trustee arrangements to a regime of mixed public and private property for the management of the seabed.
Framing The Fish Farmers
Author Jeff Chatterton examines media coverage surrounding the aquaculture industry to determine the extent to which these reports reflect reality or are the product of journalists relying too uncritically on advocacy groups for information about aquaculture and its impact.
Science, emotion and the public interest: Aquaculture in the news
AIMS paper investigates the role of activism on media and public opinio
You CAN Get There From Here: How Ottawa can put Atlantic Canada on the road to prosperity
The paper is co-authored by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley and AIMS Director of Research, Don McIver. Based on the Institute’s extensive body of research on the impact of federal policies on the region, You Can Get There From Here is an invitation to all federal political parties to re-examine their past policies and declare how they intend to bring Atlantic Canada back into the nation’s economic mainstream.
AIMS short-listed for new Templeton Awards
Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank’ gains more international acclaim
Safe Salmon: Misinformation may be hazardous to your health
Farmed salmon is safe. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has repeatedly said so, Health Canada promotes it as a healthy form of protein, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it is an excellent source of those Omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins and proteins and Britain's Food Standards Agency says there is evidence that eating salmon reduces the risk of death from heart attacks. So why is it being removed from some supermarkets? Recently, media reports citing a study that says farmed salmon contains higher levels chemicals than wild salmon are giving people the impression that farmed salmon is bad for you. The study published in Science magazine says the farmed salmon have higher trace levels of PCBs. What the study doesn’t point out is milk, eggs, and meats routinely contain the same or higher trace amounts of PCBs, yet all are quite safe to eat. So why single out farmed salmon? It may have something to do with who helped finance the study in the first place.
Property rights resolution vital to aquaculture
It sounds implausible but Canadian aquaculturists have actually been arrested by government officials for "illegal fishing" while harvesting fish that exist chiefly because of the culturing efforts of their owners. The police have refused to lay theft charges against people who rustle aquaculturists' fish stocks because their property rights are so muddy, it is not at all clear that they own what has been stolen.
The Challenge for Canadian Aquaculture
As a result of a combination of rising wealth, rising population and rising technological sophistication, the very relationship that mankind enjoys with the seas is being fundamentally altered. Nowhere is this transformation clearer than in aquaculture, which rose from nothing to a US$30-billion industry worldwide last year. The prestigious Economist magazine recently featured an aquaculture cover story called the Blue Revolution, intentionally suggesting a parallel with the Green Revolution, which hugely increased world agricultural production and efficiency at the end of the last century. Aquaculture is set to become a vigorous and lucrative industry for Canada’s coasts. Yet “fencing” this last frontier is hampered by a property rights regime intended for the wild fishery, rather than agriculture, which aquaculture more closely resembles.