03
Oct
In the News: “Feds misleading Canadians on salmon farm risks to wild salmon, says advocate”
It didn’t take long for fisheries experts from British Columbia to slam the Canadian government for its latest announcement on the impacts of salmon farms on Fraser River wild salmon stocks.
A news release sent out on Monday said Fisheries and Oceans Canada had finished nine scientific risk assessments to determine the impact of interactions between wild Pacific salmon and pathogens from the salmon farms in the Discovery Islands. There are currently 18 in those waters.