ClayoquotKid
Active Member
What does that have to do with whether farms are negatively impacting wild runs?
If you don't like the idea of farming salmon that is fine with me - those are your feelings and I really don't care.
What I am talking about here is the lack of evidence to support your claims/assertions that farms hurt wild fish - more than fishing does, or even in a quantifiable way.
If you want to talk value and employment you should be happy to know that by providing an alternative to wild sourced salmon farms are ensuring that the sportfishing industry has a chance to continue to provide revenue, employment and enjoyment for many BC citizens.
I've fished my whole life and worked in aquaculture for the last decade or so, and I know both sides very well.
All I am trying to do here is challenge the ideas some have about farmed vs. wild using hard numbers and facts - the endless rhetoric about "could" "if" "might" is all about perception of risk, and obviously some fear what they do not understand.
I see a past where human impacts have nearly wiped out runs long before farming, a present where both exist without any discernable, quantifiable harm shown, and a future where farms provide the fish needed for the masses leaving lots of wild fish to be enjoyed by people like you and I.
If you don't like the idea of farming salmon that is fine with me - those are your feelings and I really don't care.
What I am talking about here is the lack of evidence to support your claims/assertions that farms hurt wild fish - more than fishing does, or even in a quantifiable way.
If you want to talk value and employment you should be happy to know that by providing an alternative to wild sourced salmon farms are ensuring that the sportfishing industry has a chance to continue to provide revenue, employment and enjoyment for many BC citizens.
I've fished my whole life and worked in aquaculture for the last decade or so, and I know both sides very well.
All I am trying to do here is challenge the ideas some have about farmed vs. wild using hard numbers and facts - the endless rhetoric about "could" "if" "might" is all about perception of risk, and obviously some fear what they do not understand.
I see a past where human impacts have nearly wiped out runs long before farming, a present where both exist without any discernable, quantifiable harm shown, and a future where farms provide the fish needed for the masses leaving lots of wild fish to be enjoyed by people like you and I.
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