Listen to more insight into Canada’s plan for B.C.’s fish farms. Belle Puri speaks with Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, about what the transition will look like. Listen now.
VANCOUVER: traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations - In a decision released yesterday, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier expressed the government’s intention to “ban” the open-net pen salmon farm industry by 2029. Living Oceans is pleased to see the Minister making an appropriately precautionary decision to protect wild salmon, but expresses concern for its implementation.
The deadline is looming for the federal government to release its promised plan to transition away from open-net pen salmon farms in B.C. The Narwhal has an article that helps explain the dire situation. Read it now.
Vancouver, On the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations:
Corporate salmon farming giant MOWI is so concerned about the federal government’s decisions “removing 192 million salmon meals from the dining tables of Canadian households” that it has decided to begin exporting its product from eastern Canada to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, with plans to expand into China.
DFO has been denying the link between salmon farming and the spread of piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) for over a decade, burying its own findings that the virus can be lethal to wild salmon. Now that those findings have finally been daylighted by the Information Commissioner's order, it's past time to revise the policy that lets industry put infected fish in the water. See recent article in Saanich News.
The Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway, in response to concerns raised by Tony Allard, chair of Wild Salmon Forever, says she has determined that a probe into the conduct of Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials is warranted.
In her April 23 letter, Solloway writes that department officials may have seriously breached the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector and policy “by attempting to silence scientists."
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