Ottawa to slash red tape for fish farms  
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Aquaculture, Conservation, Environment, farmed salmon sucks, fish farms, fish in the news

WTF Canada?

The Harper government is laying the regulatory groundwork for a resurgence of the controversial B.C. fish farm industry.

Bureaucratic hurdles and legal uncertainty are being swept away as part of an attempt to help the Canadian industry, which has stagnated for years, to take advantage of rising global demand for seafood, according to testimony by top officials before a Senate committee.

The regulatory changes include a planned exemption from a Fisheries Act prohibition against dumping harmful substances in the ocean, though government and industry officials say the change won’t alter current practices or pose environmental threats.

LINK (via:The Vancouver Sun)

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