Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
What About The Province of BC?
Every salmon farm in BC needs a Licence of Occupation from the Province of BC. In March 2013, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick is quoted in an article titled:
B.C. won’t approve new net-pen salmon farms following Cohen report
As the industry pushes DFO for more and larger salmon farms, British Columbians have a ringside seat on whether the provincial position was just talk, like Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announcing last October that there would be no expansion in the "foreseeable future," or did BC mean it.
What does salmon farming do for BC?
Salmon farming is shrinking in BC even as they insist they need more sites:
For 2012, the last available year statistics are available, salmon farmers produced 73,700 tonnes of fish, an 11-per-cent decrease from 2011.
Salmon farming is increasingly mechanised - it is hard to argue that this about jobs, when the wild fishery is much larger and at risk, according to the Cohen Commission, from salmon farming.
I recently wrote to the Premier of BC about the applications for two new salmon farms. The reply from BC was to deny that the problematic website advertising the two new sites was a federal website. Check it out for yourself - it sure looks like a Province of BC website!
This is getting ridiculous.
Here is important action you can take:
- See more at: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/...o-not-what-they-say.html#sthash.j5cCALQj.dpuf
Every salmon farm in BC needs a Licence of Occupation from the Province of BC. In March 2013, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick is quoted in an article titled:
As the industry pushes DFO for more and larger salmon farms, British Columbians have a ringside seat on whether the provincial position was just talk, like Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announcing last October that there would be no expansion in the "foreseeable future," or did BC mean it.
What does salmon farming do for BC?
Salmon farming is shrinking in BC even as they insist they need more sites:
For 2012, the last available year statistics are available, salmon farmers produced 73,700 tonnes of fish, an 11-per-cent decrease from 2011.
Salmon farming is increasingly mechanised - it is hard to argue that this about jobs, when the wild fishery is much larger and at risk, according to the Cohen Commission, from salmon farming.
I recently wrote to the Premier of BC about the applications for two new salmon farms. The reply from BC was to deny that the problematic website advertising the two new sites was a federal website. Check it out for yourself - it sure looks like a Province of BC website!
This is getting ridiculous.
Here is important action you can take:
- Sign this petition to the Premier of BC
- Don't eat farmed salmon (if it has white stripes is it farmed) and tell your market, sushi restaurant, friends and family why.
- Contribute to reaching the consumers of salmon farmed in BC. There is no big organization on this, it is up to us. Donate to Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society
- See more at: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/...o-not-what-they-say.html#sthash.j5cCALQj.dpuf
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