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Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread
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Warm N Atlantic temperatures exploded jellyfish populations, killing farmed and wild salmon.
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OldBlackDog
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No salmon farm closures by 2025, says fisheries minister | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper
The time is quickly approaching for the government to deliver a plan to remove net pens from the ocean, although Canada’s fisheries minister is assuring those tied to the salmon farming industry that no sites will be closed in 2025. Since 2019 salmon farming has faced a federal mandate to...
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SpringFever552
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Exactly..
Quote from OBD link
“I’ve confirmed that there will be no closure of aquaculture centres in 2025. We’re going to present a transition plan, and then we’ll go from there.”
Read between the lines on this...
the cdn gov will "present" a plan
not "implement, require, or instill"
All vague words like , "could, may, might"
wildmanyeah
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I don't think the Liberal government thought 8 years ago when they made the promise that they would be in government long enough to have to deal with it.
Agree with HG. The Trudeau cabinet are in panic mode. They don't want any more bad news/press that's why they thru "The butcher" (that's what Le bouthillier means) in. She should have instead been named "Agneau sacrificiel" (sacrificial lamb).
B.C. First Nations Group Discusses Future of Wild Salmon – February 12, 2024
In Ottawa, representatives from the First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance (FNWSA) hold a technical briefing on the future of wild salmon in British Columbia. The organization has called on the federal government to stand by its plan to transition away from open-net fish farms on the west coast by...
AA: I don't think there will be a transition plan that will make Bob happy. Especially when the minister told industry no closures for the remaining farms in 2025. The transition plan is already over year late at this point. I'll be interested to see if the new farm by minstrel island goes in after a plan does get released.
These court cases amount to FF ownership of the waters where they are if they win.
I don't think the word "ownership" quite applies. More like co-management within a particular FN Traditional Territory- which already has been ruled on in a number of court decisions.
The Pandora's Box that DFO & the industry DO NOT want opened at all costs - is to have a court case that acknowledges the reality that fish swim and water flows - which is why they REFUSE to update their siting criteria to capture these realities.
They refuse to incorporate their own research into the siting criteria like Mike Foreman's work (weblink below) because that might increase the distance between critical forshore juvie salmon rearing areas and disease plumes from operating open net-pen sites and shut down the industry in areas:
The ability of hydrodynamic models to inform decisions on the siting and management of aquaculture facilities in British Columbia / M.G.G. Foreman ... [et al.].: Fs70-5/2015-005E-PDF - Government of Canada Publications - Canada.ca
Publication information / bibliographic Record.
and NOBODY wants to hear that fish swim because the whole industry might get shut down like it did up near Rupert:
Push North for Fish Farms Blocked | Wilderness Committee
Tyee Special Report. By Sarah K. Cox March 1, 2006 TheTyee.ca Strouts Point used to be just another rocky thumb of land along the Skeena River estuary's southern reach. Today, the once innocuous point is the snag in the salmon farming industry's contentious plan to expand to BC's North Coast.
Whole in the Water
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Good indeed - keep up the good work to publish the truth on this questionable industry so we can move these disease spreading, polluting feedlots onto land where their negative environmental impacts can be better managed!
It was a "BC decision" because the province was in charge of aquaculture when this happened - before the Morton Decision that switched it back to the feds.
And BC made that decision to implement a moratorium because their lawyers didn't want to set a legal precedent by being taken to court and loosing to the Lake Babine and Gitxsan bands over the fact that a fish farm in adjacent FN territory would impact the rights of another FN up the line. They used DNA to prove it.
That is EXACTLY my point about the government's Pandora's Box that they don't want opened at all costs.
And BC made that decision to implement a moratorium because their lawyers didn't want to set a legal precedent by being taken to court and loosing to the Lake Babine and Gitxsan bands over the fact that a fish farm in adjacent FN territory would impact the rights of another FN up the line. They used DNA to prove it.
That is EXACTLY my point about the government's Pandora's Box that they don't want opened at all costs.
wildmanyeah
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Sparrow wouldn’t touch it either
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