Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has a mandate to transition away from open net-pen salmon farms by 2025.
Environmental groups worry Ottawa is backtracking on its commitment to phase out open net-pen salmon farming in B.C. waters after approving expansions to three operations off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
“It sends a very bad signal to allow Cermaq to invest millions of dollars into open net-pen technology that we hope will be obsolete within the next two years.” “While Cermaq has requested amendments to three specific sites, the company’s overall production limits in Northern Clayoquot Sound remain unchanged, and only four of the six farms in the area will be allowed to operate at any given time,” the statement said.
Stan Proboszcz, senior scientist at Watershed Watch Salmon Society, also expressed concern about the optics of DFO intensifying production at any site given its stated mandate. Yet when the framework for the transition plan was released this summer, language in the document “muddies the waters” around Ottawa’s commitment to the 2025 timeline and eliminating net-pens, Proboszcz said.
“If you put that on top of these three fish farm expansions, I’m kind of concerned is changing their trajectory or losing their resolve.”
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