
All ocean-based salmon farms must be removed from BC
Concerns over sea lice outbreaks and diseases from farmed fish spreading to wild Pacific salmon have already led to the closure of dozens of salmon farms in BC.
This past June, the Canadian government announced a ban on open-net pen salmon farming in coastal BC waters by 2029 to protect already declining wild salmon stocks. If the government is serious about protecting wild salmon, land-based closed containment systems are the only viable option.
“To our understanding, there is nothing that can actually have zero discharge that’s in the water,” says Dan Lewis, co-founder and executive director of Clayoquot Action. “What we want to see in the next five years is all the farms come out of the water. We don’t believe there are any in-water solutions.”