From the Vancouver Sun – April 29, 2011

by Postmedia News

SIDNEY, B.C. — Green Party leader Elizabeth May called Friday for an
end to open net-cage fish farms in order to protect wild salmon off the
British Columbia coast.

“After I am elected to Parliament
on Monday, the Green party will be positioned to push louder than ever
before for a rapid phase-out of open-ocean net-cage fish farms and to
ensure that this aquaculture industry does not continue to harm wild
salmon populations through sea lice, viruses and pollution,” May said at
a news conference in Sidney.

May said there are many
problems associated with open net-cage fish farming, including transfer
of diseases and parasites to wild salmon, the use of wild fish as feed
for farmed fish, the dispersal of tonnes of solid waste and nutrients
into the surrounding waters and the problematic use of antibiotics in
farmed fish.