Hey CK and Birdsnest what do you have to say about this? Even the Cohen commission cited ongoing one-sided bias to support net pen salmon farming. If your insutry is so harmless as you make it out to be why does DFO have to protect it so much?
"For years, the conservation and environmental community, the Public, academics 3, First Nations, and most recently, a federal commission into the decline of Fraser River Sockeye, have raised serious concerns that conservation and public interest were being seriously short-changed by "official" government science. Indeed, substantial evidence was tabled throughout the Cohen Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River to support that DFO’s science advice on the impacts of open net-cage aquaculture was overly narrow, often biased, and likely skewed by the Department’s "conflicted" mandate of being both a regulator and promoter of aquaculture.4 Justice Cohen took particular pains to make a case that science advice on salmon conservation and aquaculture regulation should be broadened to include outside academics and conservation groups. That advice—not to mention most of the Inquiry’s other aquaculture specific recommendations—have seemingly been forsaken by the federal government in the proposed structure of the AMAC process."