Ya know, I don't have any problem with salmon farms, as long as they don't do their farming on are tidal waters, it should and can be done on land and their effluent could be taken care of on land! On the Sunshine Coast there's a Sturgeon farm on "DRY LAND", they collect roe and sturgeon meat on the farm and "MAKE MONEY". You can't tell me that the salmon farmers couldn't make money on dry land, just not as much money as the make on tidal water! It's time we take are tidal waters back! Ya know with 1-2% of wild recruitment with wild salmon as spawners it's not right that now they have to try to get past fish farms as smolts and as feeders with all the crap and sea lice below these fish farms pens. ATLANTIC SALMON belong in the ATLANTIC OCEAN! NOT HERE! I can hear it now, all those jobs leaving B.C., Oh ya how about all those commercial fishing jobs that aren't here anymore, and if this keeps up they'll never be back! It's time to tell these guy's that their permits are null and void and to go back to Norway and do their farming there or on DRY LAND! God knows theres lots of logging dry land sorts that aren't being used anymore. And it's time that we put money back into spawning habitat for the the few fish that we have left!