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20 May
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Sean Jones: A crisis of trust with the science from the federal Fisheries Department

“No one can read this report (by the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans – FOPO) and believe that Canadians can rely on DFO to assess the risk open net-pens of Atlantic salmon pose to wild Pacific salmon in coastal British Columbia. Canadians deserve better.  They deserve a responsible regulator who discharges its primary statutory mandate – the protection and conservation of fish – not a regulator who hides the evidence of harm to protect an unsustainable industry.” Click here to read full commentary in Business in Vancouver.