Article by Dan MacLennan in the Campbell River Courier-Islander. “The finfish aquaculture regulations are woefully inadequate to protect wild salmon”, said Brian Gunn, President of the BC Wilderness Tourism Association (WTA). “They do not address the impacts that open net cage salmon farms have on the wild salmon stocks. For example, there are no requirements in the current proposed regulations for the salmon farming industry to monitor the health of juvenile wild salmon for impacts due to disease and sea lice around farms during their out migration. In fact there is little in the proposed regulations to protect wild salmon. DFO seem to have forgotten what should be their primary mandate, which is to protect our wild fisheries.”
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