The federal government is funding a First Nations initiative to protect and restore wild salmon habitats. “What we are bringing to this is a much more creative and nuanced view of what a sustainable economy looks like in rural communities,” says Eric Angel, a project lead for Salmon Parks Network working with Mowachaht/Muchalaht and Nuchatlaht […]

The open-net pen salmon farming industry has come under scrutiny in Iceland after thousands of farmed salmon escaped, raising fears over the threat to wild salmon from interbreeding. Earlier this month, the @Guardian obtained film footage of diseased, dead and dying salmon on a farm after a sea-lice outbreak described as a “welfare disaster” by […]

“British Columbia remains the only place on the Pacific ocean’s western seaboard of North America that allows this industry,” says Bob Chamberlin, Chair, First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance. The salmon farming industry poses threats to wild Pacific salmon, such as parasitic sea lice, which attaches to juvenile salmon and kills them. Chief Arnie Lampreau, Shackan […]

First Nations Chiefs from across BC are calling on the federal government to make good on its commitment to phase out open-net salmon farms by 2025. “This is a very clear opportunity for the federal government to take meaningful actions for reconciliation with First Nations literally across the province of British Columbia and in doing […]

Indigenous leaders from BC have called on the federal government to stand by plans to transition away from open-net salmon farms in coastal BC waters by 2025. “The chiefs who have made the trip to Ottawa are here to ensure that the meetings that we have, that the government clearly understands the breadth of support […]

“The chiefs who have made the trip to Ottawa are here to ensure…that the government clearly understands the breadth of support to remove fish farms from migration routes of wild salmon” says Bob Chamberlin, Chair, First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance. “I urge the prime minister to look in on the new minister Lebouthillier and ensure […]

First Nations chiefs are calling on the Prime Minister and federal government to follow through on their mandate to close salmon farms off the BC coast by 2025. The federal mandate letter states the need to develop “a responsible plan to transition from open-net pen salmon farming in coastal British Columbia waters by 2025.” Commercial […]

First Nation Chiefs from across BC are in Ottawa to call on the Trudeau government to make good on its commitment to phase out open-net salmon farms by 2025. “The message we carry is that this is a very clear opportunity for the federal government to take meaningful actions for reconciliation with First Nations literally […]

The First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance is calling on the federal government to stand firm on the mandate to phase out open-net pen salmon farms in BC waters by 2025. DFO’s ‘Pacific Aquaculture Transition – What We Heard Report Phases 1 and 2’ states: “Wild Pacific salmon have significant cultural, social, and ecological importance to […]

During the 2019 federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to phase out open-net pen salmon farms in BC by 2025, because of the risks to the health of wild Pacific salmon. But in June 2023, Ottawa suddenly shelved the release of a draft transition plan toward land-based production. “Have we forgotten what happened to […]