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DFO is undermining the Fisheries Minister’s mandate

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The Hill Times (February 22, 2024)
23 Feb
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DFO is undermining the Fisheries Minister’s mandate

“The Minister’s marching orders are ‘to transition open net pen salmon farms from BC waters by 2025’. Her Department, seeing no need to do that, is currently consulting on issuing new salmon farm licences for terms of 2-6 years, when they expire in June of this year.”

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