Codes Of Practice
Current
- Beef Cattle
- Bison
- Chickens, Turkeys and Breeders
- Equine
- Farmed Deer
- Farmed Fox
- Farmed Mink
- Pigs
- Pullets and Laying Hens
- Rabbits
- Sheep
- Veal Cattle
Under Revision
Code Development Process
Farmed Salmonids
CODE UNDER DEVELOPMENT
The aquaculture sector has initiated the development of Canada’s first Code of Practice for farmed salmonids (salmon, trout, charr).
CODE DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE
Start: November 2018
Public comment period: November 2, 2020 – January 7, 2021
Projected completion: Fall 2021
Code development timeline
Resources:
- Scientific Committee report - Review of scientific research on priority issues - September 2020
- Farmed Finfish Survey Results
- Progress Update
- News release - Development of Canada’s first Code of Practice for Farmed Finfish underway; stakeholder survey launched - February 2019
Committees
Code Development Committee members
Participants are defined as per NFACC’s Guiding Principles for Codes of Practice.
Role | Committee Member | Organization |
Code Manager | Caroline Ramsay |
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Code Manager Support | Kate Cooper | |
Producer | Barry Milligan (Chair) | Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance |
Producer | Wendy Vandersteen | Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance |
Producer | Arlen Taylor | Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance |
Producer | Amanda Borchardt | Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance |
Transporter | Several producer representatives with knowledge and expertise will serve in this capacity | |
Veterinarian | Chris Harvey-Clark | Canadian Veterinary Medical Association |
National animal welfare association | Leigh Gaffney | World Animal Protection Canada |
Provincial animal protection enforcement authority | Carolyn Sanford | Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture and Fisheries |
Provincial government representative with responsibilities in animal welfare | Myron Roth | British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture |
Retail and food service organization | Alexandra Leclerc | Retail Council of Canada |
Processor | Several producer representatives with knowledge and expertise will serve in this capacity | |
Federal government | Kim Klotins | Canadian Food Inspection Agency |
| Victoria Pedersen | Canadian Food Inspection Agency |
Researcher/academic | Richard Moccia | Co-Chairs of the Scientific Committee |
| David Scarfe |
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Technical Expert | Roland Cusack |
Scientific Committee members
Name | Named by |
Jim Duston | Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS) |
Richard Moccia (Co-Chair) | International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) (Canadian chapter) |
Don Stevens | Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) |
David Scarfe (Co-Chair) | Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) |
Michelle Lavery | Scientific Committee, as additional needed animal welfare expertise. Additionally served as the Research Writer. |
Priority welfare issues for the Scientific Committee report
The Code Development Committee and Scientific Committee collectively identified the following list of priority welfare issues. The Scientific Committee is developing a report synthesizing the results of research relating to these animal welfare issues.
- Current understanding, definitions or roles of consciousness, sentience,and feelings-based perspectives, learning, behaviour, nociception, neurophysiology, philosophy, morals/ethics, public perceptions and the “Precautionary Principle” on farmed salmonids welfare
- Welfare measures/indicators in fish (acute and chronic stress/distress and those associated with injury and disease)
- Impact of sea lice on fish welfare and welfare concerns associated with treatments
- Fasting/feed withdrawal
- Welfare appropriate stocking rates/density and management in relation to associated factors (e.g. temperature, water quality, fish behaviour)
- New and emerging water quality issues in recirculating aquaculture systems affecting fish welfare
- Impact of lighting and photoperiods (including quality) on fish welfare
- Welfare concerns associated with hormonal and diurnal induced spawning, and creating non-reproductive fish (triploids, monosex)
- Genetic improvement strategies (including natural selection and genetic engineering)
- Welfare implications of using ice slurry for slaughter