Fisheries Minister Jordan walking back on transition from open net salmon farms.

[cohochinook]

I just received this from Wild Salmon Forever:

"Federal Government


Fisheries Minister Jordan has been quoted in an industry publication and The Narwhal magazine as believing that the Mandate Letter to her from Prime Minister Trudeau only requires her to come up with a plan for transition by 2025 and not the actual transition.


https://thenarwhal.ca/trudeau-government-backpedals-on-election-promise-to-phase-out-b-c-open-net-salmon-farms-by-2025/


We believe this is an incorrect and rather disingenuous reading of her Mandate Letter as our letter to her (attached) outlines. Our primary job over the next few months will be to encourage our Federal government to understand four things:

1. Wild Pacific salmon are in crisis and can’t wait another decade for us to act. Does our Prime Minister, son of British Columbia, really want to preside over a slow-motion extinction of wild Pacific salmon? We don’t think he does;
2. DFO remains in a state of regulatory capture. To the extent that it acknowledges the existence of papers which describe scientific findings that open net salmon farms threaten the health of wild salmon at all, it dismisses the findings as wrong. The Minister’s actions suggest she may not fully appreciate how severe the culture of deliberate misinterpretation of science within the Aquaculture Management division of her Department is;
3. The actual transition of the fish farms onto land is already underway in British Columbia as emphasized in our letter- this is key;
4. British Columbians will not allow wild Pacific salmon to be knowingly decimated like the Atlantic Cod in the 1990s. If this must be an election issue to be fully addressed, we will make it one and are planning accordingly. This will mark a departure from our approach to date;

We were very gratified to work with allied organizations which signed the letter – there is a lot of knowledge and commitment in this group and also to work with the Pacific Salmon Foundation which sent its own letter (shorter and more direct) on the same day.


We have not received a reply to our letter."

I have attached a copy of the letter that was sent.

 

[Whole in the Water]

Typical two-faced political lying BS to get people's votes in the election and then back peddle after when foreign owned corporation put on the lobbying pressure - disgusting!

We need to keep the pressure on the Feds to follow through on their election promise to get these environmentally dangerous net pen salmon farms out of the water and onto the land where their multiple negative impacts can be better managed - the sooner the better for our wild salmon and marine environment!!!