Hi Gail Shea
I object to your looking at ‘eco’ labels for farmed salmon with
representatives at the Boston conference from other parts of the world. There is
no such thing as ‘eco’ farmed salmon from in-ocean pens. They need to be on
land, or they can go back to Norway.
As I have pointed out, the people in the jurisdictions who have to live
with these in-ocean ‘farms’ are overwhelmingly against them. That is in Atlantic
Canada, and even more so in BC where more than 100,000 British Columbians have
signed a petition to stop expansion and to get them out of the water. See: https://www.change.org/p/restore-wild-salmon-ban-salmon-feedlots-in-bc.
You are simply making British Columbians angry by ignoring what we want.
You are elected to work on our behalf and we pay your and your civil servants
salaries to do our business. We don’t want you acting against our wishes.
Fish farms are in the ocean to use it as a free, open sewer. We want them
out. Here is my list of 75 on-land, mostly recirculating fish farm systems from
around the world, comprising more than 10,000 actual fish farms on land right
now: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/key-document-34-mostly-on-land-closed.html.
Please act as citizens want and take these open sewage containers out of
our pristine oceans.
DC Reid
US, Norway, Iceland, Canada
Fisheries Regulators Meet in Boston Regarding Normalizing Eco-Label
Practices
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by
John Sackton - March 17, 2015
A high level
meeting involving the top fisheries officials in the US, Norway, Iceland, and
Canada took place at the Boston Seafood Show yesterday to address the issue of
regularizing or normalizing use of seafood ecolabels based on FAO
criteria.
Attending were
Russell Smith, deputy assistant secretary for International Fisheries at NOAA,
Eileen Sobeck, Adminstrator of NMFS, Iceland's Minister of Fisheries and
Agriculture, Mr. Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, the Deputy Fisheries Minister of
Norway, and in place of Gail Shea, the Canadian deputy minister, along with some
US state officials, including Mike Cerne from Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
and Damon Morris from the ...
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