Environmental activists are calling on the Premier to delay her Government’s decision on a proposed salmon farm on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
A group called Friends of Clayoquot Sound has written to Christy Clark about Mainstream Canada’s proposal for a 55-hectare salmon farm in the Sound.
Bonny Glambeck says the Premier should wait until two reviews are complete; the Cohen Commission into declining sockeye and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s probe into viruses in BC’s wild salmon, “We’re asking that the Government wait until we have the data in from those studies before they make any decision about expanding fish farming in Clayoquot Sound.”
She points to a case in May, where the same company, Mainstream Canada had to cull more than half a million fish at a farm near Tofino after tests found a virus.
Glambeck says both Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the BC Government are set to decide on the proposal by month’s end.
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