Salmon Farming

“Bob Chamberlain, FNSWA Chair, opened the April 29 press conference stating that the First Nation Leadership Council (FNLC), a coalition of First Nations from across B.C., is calling on the federal government to honour its commitment to ban open net pen fish farming by 2029, warning that continued silence or delay undermines reconciliation and will be met with significant push back.” Read the full story at North Island Gazette.

Taylor says “it’s appalling” for Alaska to apply a different standard to B.C. fish and the Marine Stewardship Council “is letting them get away with it.” Read the full article in The Narwhal.

"It's been a really great fund that's allowed us to do restoration, monitoring and research," said Dave Scott, research and restoration coordinator for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation's Lower Fraser salmon program. "[The fund] gets a huge number of applications for conservation and restoration-focused work. Politically, I think they would get a lot of pushback if they totally dropped that from [the BC fund]."

Read the full article at National Observer.