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Open Pen Fish Farms Continue To Threaten Wild Salmon On BC Coast

by: Redeye Collective

Publication date: 2022-03-08

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Topics: fish, farms, salmon, wild, federal, Canada, BC, licenses, open-pen, coast, pollution, environment

Language: English

This will be a critical year for wild salmon as all BC federal licenses for fish farms expiring this June. British Columbia is now the only jurisdiction on the west coast of North America still allowing salmon farms. The federal government promised in 2019 to remove all open-pen salmon farms from BC waters by 2025. We speak with Dan Lewis, executive director of Clayoquot Action.