The Heiltsuk First Nation from Bella Bella is calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada to order open-net salmon farms to close and to shut down commercial and recreational salmon fishing next year, only opening fisheries after “conservation and food, social, and ceremonial needs can be met.” Read the full story at TriCity News: Heiltsuk First […]
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — A coalition of over 100 B.C. First Nations are ‘turning the screws’ on the federal Fisheries Minister, demanding she take action on coastal fish farms. Read the full story on News 1130: First Nations demanding federal government take action on fish farming along B.C. coast
First Nation leaders, fishers and non-governmental organizations are calling on the federal government to remove fish farms from the Discovery Islands located about 265 km by car off the B.C. coast. They say the Fraser River salmon fishery has collapsed and that the fish farms are partly to blame. Read the full article here.
A broad coalition of First Nations leaders, wilderness tourism operators, environmental NGOs and commercial and sport fishing organizations gathered in North Vancouver Sept. 22 demanding the federal government fulfill recommendations of the Cohen Commission to immediately remove open-net salmon farms from the Discovery Islands, and abolish all others from BC waters by 2025. Read the […]
A total of 101 B.C. First Nations, wilderness tourism operators, and commercial and sport fishing groups have united in a show of solidarity to demand the federal government take action on the collapse of Fraser River salmon stocks by ordering the removal of open-net fish farms near Campbell River. Read the full story at CBC: […]
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — A coalition of over 100 B.C. First Nations are ‘turning the screws’ on the federal Fisheries Minister, demanding she take action on coastal fish farms. Coalition spokesperson Bob Chamberlin says their group is calling for immediate action, noting that under the Cohen Commission report, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has […]
The salmon has always been a barometer for the health of the planet. Now industrial-scale farming is bringing pollution, plagues of sea lice and threatening the future of wild salmon. When a fish is in crisis, the public wants to blame the fishermen. It is preferable to blaming ourselves. But a fish whose only problem […]
Salmon farms in B.C. waters appear to be significantly under-counting the number of sea lice on their fish, making it less likely they’ll have to pay for delousing treatments to protect wild stocks, according to a new study. Read the full story on CBC: B.C. fish farms regularly under-count sea lice, potentially putting wild salmon […]
Pacific Salmon Foundation funding is channeled through the Community Salmon Program. Twelve salmon conservation projects in the north will share in a round of grants from the Pacific Salmon Foundation valued at $162,500 through the Community Salmon Program (CSP). Read the full article here.
The Cohen Commission inquiry into declining Fraser River sockeye salmon gave the federal government until Sept. 30, 2020 to show salmon farms in the Discovery Islands were a “minimal risk of serious harm” to migrating salmon, or order them removed. Now, on the eve of that deadline conservation groups are increasing pressure on Federal Fisheries […]