“Prime Minister Mark Carney first floated the idea to dredge the channel in the spring of 2025. Last year’s federal budget does not include any specific references to the project, beyond promises to “improve access” to overseas markets by investing in new airport, railway and port infrastructure.” Read the full Times Colonist story.
“The young calf appears to be just a few days old. Scientists are cautiously optimistic, noting that the first year of life is challenging for killer whales, with many calves not surviving.” Read the full story at Check News.
“The problem is that until now, very few studies have captured what’s happening in the middle of a flood, especially in rivers running through a mix of cities, farms, and forests.”
"The final report, including conservation advice for the Commonwealth, remained unequivocal — industrial aquaculture is the primary driver of habitat stress for the skate." Read more at ABC News.
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Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has upheld Ottawa’s decision to end salmon farming in B.C.’s Discovery Islands.
Yes, it's a win, but it isn't over yet!
Wild salmon need permanent protection — not temporary policy promises.
“The likelihood of having favourable wind and waves, good visibility, daylight hours and slack currents at the time of a spill and for days afterward is not just improbable, it is nonexistent,” the study concluded. Read the full story at Times Colonist.
“The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) laments Canadians’ “restricted” ability to buy salmon farmed in our ocean, citing food security concerns and the climate implications of imports. What they don’t mention is that they only ever sold about 4,000 to 5,000 tonnes annually into the Canadian market.”
“The decision upholds the fisheries minister’s “precautionary approach” to salmon farms and already appears to be paying off, according to Karen Wristen, executive director of Living Oceans Society, an intervener in the case.” Read the full article in BIV.
“We all owe a debt of gratitude to these ministers who stood firm in showing the Department of Fisheries what precautionary decision-making looks like,” said Karen Wristen, executive director at Living Oceans Society in a statement.
VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (SQUAMISH), AND səlilwətaɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH) TERRITORIES — The Federal Court of Appeal today issued a decision on an appeal by MOWI against then Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray’s decision to keep salmon farms in the Discovery Islands shuttered. Farms have been closed there since early 2021, when licence extensions were first denied. Minister Murray made an express finding that science required that she make a precautionary decision about the licences and today’s decision confirms that choice.
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