Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
What a sad and shameful state of affairs. This industry and the corrupt elements in DFO continue to defy the law. Three times now!!! How anyone can defend this unsustainable industry and their shameful, harmful practices that spread pollution, disease and pesticides, antibiotics, etc, in the marine environment for corporate profit is beyond me!
Thank goodness for concerned citizens who continue to fight this dangerous and corrupt net pen industry fish farm industry and force them to move onto land where their negative impacts can be better managed.
https://www.trailtimes.ca/news/namgis-first-nation-sues-dfo-again-says-they-arent-protecting-wild-salmon/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7a25dc6706-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_13_11_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7a25dc6706-460103765&mc_cid=7a25dc6706&mc_eid=40977b7a71
Vancouver Island First Nation sues DFO again, says they aren’t protecting wild salmon
“The Federal Court has found DFO’s refusal to prohibit stocking of fish infected with PRV unlawful”
TYSON WHITNEY
According to a press release issued by ‘Namgis Chief Don Svanvik, the nation has “filed an application for judicial review of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Oct. 3, 2019 policy decision not to prohibit the stocking of open-net pen fish farms with Atlantic salmon infected with the Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV).”
RELATED: After the election: The future of fish farms in the North Island
The relase also noted that “Under this PRV Policy, smolts are to be tested for two supposed ‘strains’ of PRV prior to transfer into open net pens but will not be tested for a supposedly ‘native strain’ of PRV. DFO has not produced any evidence that such a ‘native strain’ of PRV exists. DFO will not prohibit stocking fish farms with fish infected with PRV.”
“This is a flagrant disregard of the precautionary principle, scientific research, our constitutionally protected title and rights, and the findings of the Federal Court,” says Svanvik via press release. “Twice the Federal Court has found DFO’s refusal to prohibit stocking of fish infected with PRV unlawful. In the first decision, the Federal Court found that DFO has a positive duty to prohibit ‘transfers [into the marine environment] if the fish have diseases or disease agents that may be harmful to the protection and conservation of fish’.”
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Thank goodness for concerned citizens who continue to fight this dangerous and corrupt net pen industry fish farm industry and force them to move onto land where their negative impacts can be better managed.
https://www.trailtimes.ca/news/namgis-first-nation-sues-dfo-again-says-they-arent-protecting-wild-salmon/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7a25dc6706-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_13_11_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7a25dc6706-460103765&mc_cid=7a25dc6706&mc_eid=40977b7a71
Vancouver Island First Nation sues DFO again, says they aren’t protecting wild salmon
“The Federal Court has found DFO’s refusal to prohibit stocking of fish infected with PRV unlawful”
TYSON WHITNEY
- Nov. 8, 2019 11:17 a.m.
- NEWS
According to a press release issued by ‘Namgis Chief Don Svanvik, the nation has “filed an application for judicial review of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Oct. 3, 2019 policy decision not to prohibit the stocking of open-net pen fish farms with Atlantic salmon infected with the Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV).”
RELATED: After the election: The future of fish farms in the North Island
The relase also noted that “Under this PRV Policy, smolts are to be tested for two supposed ‘strains’ of PRV prior to transfer into open net pens but will not be tested for a supposedly ‘native strain’ of PRV. DFO has not produced any evidence that such a ‘native strain’ of PRV exists. DFO will not prohibit stocking fish farms with fish infected with PRV.”
“This is a flagrant disregard of the precautionary principle, scientific research, our constitutionally protected title and rights, and the findings of the Federal Court,” says Svanvik via press release. “Twice the Federal Court has found DFO’s refusal to prohibit stocking of fish infected with PRV unlawful. In the first decision, the Federal Court found that DFO has a positive duty to prohibit ‘transfers [into the marine environment] if the fish have diseases or disease agents that may be harmful to the protection and conservation of fish’.”
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Read the full press release below
