Feds move to phase out open net salmon farms in B.C.
The BC government took steps toward keeping their promise to remove open-net pen salmon farms from B.C. waters by 2025, say, conservationists. By not renewing …
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Little Action as Deadline to Remove Salmon Farms Looms
Eight years ago, the Cohen Commission gave Fisheries and Oceans Canada a deadline to prove salmon farms do not threaten wild sockeye. Despite evidence of …
Trudeau issues mandate to close BC netpen salmon farms by 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not backing down on his vow to ban netpen farming in British Columbia. Trudeau directed the minister of fisheries …
DFO to test for harmful virus at B.C. fish farms
Testing will begin at B.C. fish farm operations for strains of a virus that is harmful to farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway, the federal fisheries …
Lice from fish farms infecting wild baby salmon in B.C.
A massive lice outbreak at several fish farms on the west coast of Vancouver Island is killing wild baby salmon, which will have devastating effects …