The world’s troubled sea food industry gets a highlight in two news pulses this week.

• The most expansive, largely carried in Canada’s press, is a report by a University of British Columbia researcher, writing in Nature, on worldwide non-compliance with UN standards for fishery management. At the CanWest news service Margaret Munro reports it as an “indictment” of local-level adherence to international norms. It found no nation doing a good job, and 40 percent with “unequivocal fail grades.” Least bad were Norway, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Namibia, and Iceland. (Tracker’s Aside – and two of the unworstest shoot whales!). Also carrying the news is AP’s John Heilprin, who finds the lead author depressed by the results. 
• Meanwhile, Chile’s huge salmon farm industry is continuing to struggle against a viral infection that has deeply cut its production. The NY Times’s Alexei Barrionuevo reports from Santiago that the industry, while working hard to control the virus, may not yet recognize how much it must change its practices. At Bloomberg, it’s a  biz story by Meera Bhatia ;

• Grist for the Mill: Pew Trust – Environment Group Press Release on US-unapproved chemicals in use at Chilean salmon farms.

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