Already - the fish farming industry lobbied successfully to our regulators to quietly get rid of CEAA requirements. So as it stands now - there is no legislated environmental review where there is scoping (determining boundaries of potential impacts) - no risk assessment, especially agent-based modelling - and no mandatory public review.
YET - the industry has now successfully lobbied government to get them to believe that there is too much red tape - and they need to be excluded from the Fisheries Act.
I could live with the open net-cage technology - if we got them off of the migratory routes of juvenile salmon - and used scientifically-defensible siting criteria tied to oceanography and agent-based modelling.
It seems we are now heading even farther from due diligence by our regulators and protection to our wild stocks.
YET - the industry has now successfully lobbied government to get them to believe that there is too much red tape - and they need to be excluded from the Fisheries Act.
I could live with the open net-cage technology - if we got them off of the migratory routes of juvenile salmon - and used scientifically-defensible siting criteria tied to oceanography and agent-based modelling.
It seems we are now heading even farther from due diligence by our regulators and protection to our wild stocks.
