“Concerns about the industry’s impact on wild salmon played a leading role in the closure of about three dozen farms in British Columbia over the past seven years, after Clayoquot Action and other groups documented sea lice outbreaks and other diseases in farmed fish, including at farms along migration routes for wild salmon.” Read the full Guardian article.
I hate to have to tell you this, but it’s looking unavoidable. Open-net pen salmon farms are going to outlast the current federal government. Going into the next election, we will have nothing to show for the promise to “transition open-net pens from BC waters” except a further promise to ban them in 2029.
All well and good, if the party that made that promise prevails in the next election. My crystal ball is giving long odds on that happening.
Over the past year, as part of an ongoing effort to restore Guichon Creek, the B.C Institute of Technology uncovered part of the waterway in the hope that salmon would return. Read the full CBC article.
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