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2025 a ‘dreadful’ year for Atlantic salmon farming, says Mowi managing director
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Mowi Canada East’s managing director says 2025 was a “dreadful” year for Atlantic salmon farming.
“I’ve been in this industry 40 years, and 2025 has been my worst experience ever,” Gideon Pringle told CBC News in a telephone interview on Friday.
He said the year’s environmental conditions made aquaculture a difficult business. Although not a direct link, Pringle pointed to the wildfires experienced in Newfoundland and Labrador as an example.
“It’s just the environment we live in. We have good years and bad years, and I think that probably goes back, in farming terms, to the dawn of time.”
Mowi says recent deaths not alarming
In August, the company reported that about 400,000 salmon died at three Mowi sites in the province.
And in July, thousands of fish died at their Little Burdock Cove site, due to increased water temperatures.
In August, the fish plant in Harbour Breton had to process surviving fish from the Mowi Canada East incident, which saw the deaths of about 400,000 salmon. (Troy Turner/CBC) Meanwhile, Mowi reported on Dec. 20 that 24,696 salmon died at its Friar Cove site, near Francois on the south coast of Newfoundland. That number makes up more than 10 per cent of the farm’s population, which is why the company was required to report it publicly.
In the report, the company said there was no single cause for the deaths, and that it was “likely due to the residual effects from a sea lice infestation experienced during Fall 2025.”
Mowi said sea lice are naturally occurring parasites that live on many fish species, and do not pose human health or food safety risks.
Pringle noted that this report was a result of a culmination of deaths that added up over multiple weeks.
The company said prolonged storm conditions over three weeks at the end of November caused the number of deaths to accumulate.
“Really what’s happened here is the numbers have added up…[over] four weeks of not being able to harvest and empty that [pen],” said Pringle.
So despite the high number of salmon mortalities this year, Pringle said the recently-reported deaths are still normal.
“There’s no issue here for us. There’s no die-off,” he said.
“We’ve just really had a combination of slightly higher than normal farming mortality combined with bad weather.”
Province’s reporting system criticized
Pringle said the company had to report the deaths in December due to what he called “very inefficient” provincial regulations.
He said the government requires that anytime a unit reaches 10 percent mortality, the company must make a public report.
Pringle said this reporting system is “sometimes distressing” as it “portrays Newfoundland as a very poor place to farm salmon.”
“[It] takes away all sorts of investment opportunities,” he said. “The reporting systems that we have is doing a lot of harm for our industry.”
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January 03, 2026 (MLN): The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has taken a major enforcement action against deceptive marketing practices.
The Commission found that Mezan’s “Storm” energy drink
imitated the packaging and trade dress of PepsiCo’s Sting energy drink.It noted that the overall look, colour scheme, bottle
design, and branding elements were closely replicated, creating a strong
likelihood of consumer confusion at the point of sale.The CCP concluded that the conduct amounted to parasitic
copying and constituted deceptive marketing under Pakistan’s competition law,
according to the press release.The case dates back to 2018, when PepsiCo Inc. filed a
complaint alleging that Mezan had deliberately designed Storm to benefit from
the established goodwill of Sting in Pakistan’s energy drink market.Instead of responding to the allegations on merit, Mezan
repeatedly challenged the CCP’s jurisdiction and pursued prolonged litigation,
obtaining stay orders from the Lahore High Court in 2018 and again in 2021.These legal challenges delayed the inquiry for several years
and prevented the Commission from concluding the matter in a timely manner.In June 2024, the Lahore High Court dismissed Mezan’s
petition, upheld the CCP’s authority to proceed with the case, and ruled that
early challenges to show-cause notices were not maintainable.The Court also clarified that regulatory proceedings are
independent of trademark disputes and observed that Mezan had used litigation
tactics to delay the process, allowing the inquiry to resume after years of
suspension.In its detailed order, the CCP held that Mezan’s Storm
energy drink adopted a red-dominant colour scheme, bold slanted white
lettering, aggressive visual motifs, and a bottle shape and presentation
closely resembling Sting.The Commission emphasized that deception is assessed based
on the overall commercial impression rather than minor differences examined
side by side.It noted that an ordinary consumer with imperfect
recollection was likely to be misled.The Commission further ruled that Mezan’s registered
trademark for “Storm” did not grant immunity from regulatory action.It stated that trademark registration cannot shield conduct
that results in consumer deception or passing-off.While imposing the Rs150 million fine, the CCP reiterated
that copycat branding and misleading packaging will not be tolerated.Such practices would face strict action regardless of the
size or local status of the company, reinforcing its commitment to protecting
consumers and ensuring fair competition in Pakistan’s market.Copyright Mettis Link News
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