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19 Feb

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Hear from Bob Chamberlin, Chair – First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance on the importance of Minister Murray’s decision to shut down 15 fish farms in the Discovery Islands.

Hear from Bob Chamberlin, Chair – First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance on the importance of Minister Murray’s decision to shut down 15 fish farms in the Discovery Islands. “I’m very happy to hear the Minister talk about a precautionary approach, to hear her recognize the state of Pacific salmon and to focus on the cumulative […]

18 Feb

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Fisheries Department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.’s coast to protect wild fish

15 Discovery Islands salmon farms shut down. “I have to take into account the plight of wild salmon, which are in a state of serious decline,” says Minister Joyce Murray “I decided this was a situation that deserved very precautious measures and that’s why I made the decision not to re-licence the Atlantic salmon aquaculture […]

18 Feb

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Fisheries department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C. coast to protect wild fish

Fisheries Department to shut down 15 Discovery Islands salmon farms to protect wild salmon. “We cannot afford any manageable stresses because the failure to protect wild salmon is simply not an option,” says Minister Joyce Murray. “This is a huge benefit to the environment of British Columbia” say Bob Chamberlin Chair – First Nation Wild […]

18 Feb

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Reaction to federal government decision to shut down 15 B.C. fish farms

Breaking news: Fisheries Department to shut down 15 Discovery Island salmon farms to protect wild fish. “At the critical state that wild salmon are in, with historic low returns to the Fraser…Minister Murray is to be applauded for her stand today for wild salmon” says Bob Chamberlin, Chair – First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance. Watch […]

18 Feb

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Murray reaffirms shut-down of Discovery Islands fish farms

Federal Fisheries Minister reaffirms shut-down of Discovery Islands fish farms. “Minister Murray made a strong decision today and demonstrated great leadership advancing the DFO primary objective of environmental protection and safeguarding of B.C. wild salmon” says First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance Chair Bob Chamberlin. Read the full article on BIV.

18 Feb

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Fisheries Department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.’s coast to protect wild fish

Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray announces that the federal government will not renew 15 open-net pen salmon farms around BC’s Discovery Islands, a key migration route for wild Pacific salmon. Minister Murray states that recent science indicates uncertainty over the risks posed by the farms to wild salmon. Thank you, Minister Murray, for making this important decision. […]

17 Feb

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Fisheries Department says it will shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.’s coast to protect wild fish

Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray announces that the federal government will not renew 15 open-net pen salmon farms around BC’s Discovery Islands, a key migration route for wild Pacific salmon. Minister Murray says “…recent science indicates uncertainty over the risks posed by the farms to wild salmon.” Thank you, Minister Murray, for making this important […]

16 Feb

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View summary of FNWSA meeting with Minister Murray (Nov. 25, 2022)

On November 25, 2022, First Nation leaders from across BC met with The Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The meeting conveyed the united support of over 100 First Nations for the removal of all open-net pen salmon farms from BC waters. Watch a summary of the meeting hosted by FNWSA here.

12 Feb

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Government must act on evidence of “research fraud”

16 Canadian Academics sent an urgent letter to Minister of Fisheries Joyce Murray on January 30, 2023 reporting what amounts to scientific “falsification” of evidence by DFO scientists. Learn more on National Newswatch by clicking here. It’s time to #endthepens. Send a letter to the Minister today.

06 Feb

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30+ sea lice papers were omitted from DFO’s recently released sea lice assessment

30+ sea lice papers were omitted from DFO’s recently released assessment on the connection between sea lice on salmon farms and wild salmon. “We have been speaking about the failure of the CSAS for quite a long time now.” Listen to full interview on Global News Radio 980|CKNW here. Add your voice. Say “NO” to open-net pen […]

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