Ottawa will not appeal a recent court decision that orders a review of its policy not to test young farmed salmon for a potentially deadly disease before the fish are transferred to open-net farms …
Ottawa will not appeal a recent court decision that orders a review of its policy not to test young farmed salmon for a potentially deadly disease before the fish are transferred to open-net farms along the British Columbia coast.
The release says, in line with Justice Cecily Strickland’s decision, the department is reviewing its policies on piscine orthoreovirus, or PRV, and results are due this spring. Fish farm opponent Alexandra Morton and the ‘Namgis First Nation dispute the policy that allowed farmed fish smolts to be released into pens along known wild salmon routes, without being tested for PRV or another serious disease.
The ‘Namgis First Nation had challenged a Fisheries and Oceans Canada authorization transferring Atlantic salmon smolts to an open-pen aquaculture facility in the Broughton Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island.Fisheries and Oceans Canada says its officials are working to ensure the aquaculture sector is economically successful and environmentally sustainable.
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