Fisheries Minister in CR Monday

[GLG]

Fisheries Minister in CR Monday for land-based close containtment aquaculture project announcement

Courier-Islander

Friday, January 06, 2012

Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Keith Ashfield is coming to Campbell River Monday to announce four aquaculture projects, including a land-based closed containment project.
The visit is also to mark what a press release said was the 'First Year of Federal Regulation of Aquaculture in B.C.'
The release said Ashfield was also going to be in town to welcome new vessels into the Department's B.C. Aquaculture Regulatory Program.
The minister will not be marking something of his or his own department's design. He will be marking the loss of a court case that forced his ministry to take over aquaculture regulations.
The federal government was forced to take over the aquaculture industry after a BC Supreme Court decision in Feb. 2009 that took away the BC government's jurisdiction over the regulation of salmon farms.
In the decision the court ruled that the province must deliver all control of salmon farming management, which had been shared, to the federal government within a year. The federal government, which has jurisdiction of oceans and wild salmon, now solely regulates salmon farms.
Anti fish farm activist Alexandra Morton led the challenge of the provincial government's constitutional right to regulate and approve fish farm locations. She had waged a solo battle against the salmon-farming industry but was joined in court by the Wilderness Tourism Association, the Area E Gillnetters Association, the Fishing Vessel Owners Association and the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society. She specifically created the society to raise $60,000 to fund the court case.

http://www2.canada.com/courierislander/story.html?id=bdc08c65-1719-4b82-b0d5-05e53b882cdc

I sure would like to ask him a few question as to where my money is going and why he is helping these fish feedlots spread virus to the wild salmon.

If anyone hears if there will be a public meeting let me know as I would like to show up.
GLG

 

[Aces]

At least a closed containment project will be attempted........that's great news!!

Maybe give him a chance instead of kicking him, eh Holmes?

 

[Tips Up]

...keep your foot ready though

Tips

 

[GLG]

So in a nutshell here are the four project that were announced today in CR.
GLG

Four projects in British Columbia have received over $925,000 in funding from Fisheries and Oceans Canada through the Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access Program (AIMAP).

FINFISH (Salmon)




-- The 'Namgis First Nation, located outside Port McNeill, B.C., has

received over $800,000 in AIMAP funding to develop a commercial pilot

facility to determine the technological and commercial viability of

producing Atlantic salmon for human consumption in a land-based, closed-

containment re-circulating aquaculture system. The project design

represents a commercial scale module that can be incorporated as a

stand-alone unit into a much larger facility.


-- Pfizer Animal Health, located in Saanichton, B.C., has received $32,000

in AIMAP funding to continue its sea lice vaccine project. This funding

will be used to take existing research results through the regulatory

steps that are commonly required for this type of drug development

project.


SHELLFISH




-- Fanny Bay Oyster Company, located in Union Bay, B.C., has received

$63,000 in AIMAP funding to adopt technology that will crush large

volumes of oyster waste shells in an efficient and cost-effective

manner. This will reduce the overall volume of waste, ultimately

producing particles of different sizes that can be utilized by a variety

of potential markets. Shell-crushing machines will be evaluated and

tested by Fanny Bay Oyster Company, which will aid in the company's

decision on the final equipment purchase.


-- Maplestar Seafood, located in Nanoose Bay, B.C., has received $31,000 in

AIMAP funding to develop an innovative, off-bottom, suspended net for

culturing geoducks. This project will address lack of bottom tenure and

create a shorter maturation period.

 

[Clipper]

Sure sounds like DFO has all but given up on any projects that help wild fish. They should rename themselves to DFF (Department of Fish Farms).

 

[GLG]

Perhaps a new name like
Department of Commercial Fishers and Ocean Farmers.

Our moto is to "suck the life out of the ocean and replace it with a sterile environment so fish farms can expand"
GLG

 

[OldBlackDog]

Nice, great way to spend our tax dollars. All of these should have to pay back the dollars with interest as all they are going to do is use the dollars to make money.

So why did he not tell us the opening date for Halibut?

 

[Clipper]

He has to check with Jimmie first.