The petition is 3,404 pages long and weighs 40 lbs

On May 27, 2015 the Premier of BC received a petition signed by 108,000 people asking her not to expand the industry.

This petition is still growing.

Will the Premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, grant the salmon farming industry the new licences of occupation to allow the industry to expand, or she is in a lonely place when she stands in support of salmon farms?

British Columbians, BC businesses, societies and even municipalities are not standing with her.

LINK (via: Alexandra Morton)

The costliest part of feeding farmed salmon?

The pill that turns them pink.

Pigmenting supplements are the most expensive component of the farmed salmon diet, constituting up to 20 percent of feed costs.

LINK (via: The Atlantic)

Salmon Farmers’ ads more full of crap than seabed beneath their pens

DC Reid offers up a thorough analysis of these ads that were run just before the Harper Government announced new fish farm regulations.

LINK (via: Common Sense Canadian)

Norway, this is how you look in Canada

Ottawa to slash red tape for fish farms

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)

Ottawa opens door to fish farm expansion

The Harper government has quietly opened the door to a major expansion of B.C.’s controversial fish farm sector despite warnings by the 2012 Cohen Commission about the effects of net-based farms on wild salmon.

Critics say the lifting of the 2011 moratorium violates the spirit of the Cohen report and could cause disaster for wild salmon stocks. And they condemned the lack of transparency by the government.

Unbelievable.

LINK (via: The Vancouver Sun)