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[chris gadsden]

On March 7, 2014, the BC government began rollout of the salmon farming expansion. Two new salmon farming applications were posted on the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations website. There were 30 days for comment. No contact for the Province of BC was provided, only an email address for DFO which did not work. A correct email was not posted until the Vancouver Sun contacted the Ministry. This reduced public comment to only four days. Then suddenly the wording on the site changed and now reads: “There will be an open house during late spring/early summer and there will be an opportunity at that time to provide public comments”. No date, no location, people will need to check the site daily and hope they can travel to wherever this alleged “open house” takes place. The whole thing looks ill-thought out, downright shoddy, and a poorly run charade feigning public consultation. Is the BC coast really not even worth the effort? If this disturbs you write to the Premier premier@gov.bc.ca and don't eat the farmed salmon grown in the province - check your sushi - if it has white stripes is farmed.

http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/viewpost.jsp?PostID=45267

[Dave]

So the Tlatasikwala First Nation wants to get on board regarding aquaculture, and Almo is against this?? 
One wonders if Ms. Morton has considered other options for this band to improve their economic opportunities.

[G-Ratt]

I am so amazed that people who are on a forum concerning the fragile state of BCs fisheries can support something so obviously detrimental to our fisheries and our environment.

What Chris said is so true. His generation has lived through one of the best eras in terms of prosperity in our fisheries. But the epic returns I'm sure he saw as a youth are long gone. And it's this baby boomer generation's endless greed and lack of foresight that has doomed the environment, our economy, our housing markets, and could very well doom our fisheries.

Where does it end?

Are more farms really necessary?

[Fisherbob]

I am so amazed that people who are on a forum concerning the fragile state of BCs fisheries can support something so obviously detrimental to our fisheries and our environment.

What Chris said is so true. His generation has lived through one of the best eras in terms of prosperity in our fisheries. But the epic returns I'm sure he saw as a youth are long gone. And it's this baby boomer generation's endless greed and lack of foresight that has doomed the environment, our economy, our housing markets, and could very well doom our fisheries.

Where does it end?

Are more farms really necessary?

And we should know that we were the start of salmon farming for sport also.
http://msc.khamiahosting.com/sites/default/files/Timeline%20of%20Atlantic%20salmon%20in%20Pacific.pdf

[chris gadsden]

http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/letters_for_wild_salmon/

[chris gadsden]

You are so wonderful to wish us this encouragement! When the norwegians first began bringing in their Atlantic salmon, government scientists pushed back hard, even the BC Director General for DFO said BC was guaranteed to get an exotic disease if this continued. They would never have imaged we would reach this day, where the licence granted to salmon farms explicitly states the company gets to make the decision whether to use infected fish or not. I hope we correct this and protect the wild salmon