Wake Up Liberals - BC Wants Fish Farms On Land - Fish Farms Manipulate Science

Hi Jonathan

Seafood News, Dec 11, 2018: ““The Government of Canada is committed to making aquaculture more effective, efficient and environmentally sustainable,” the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, said in a press release.””

I am astonished that you don’t just do what British Columbians want and take fish farms out of the water and put them on land. We have been telling the government since the 1980s to take fish farms out of the water.

Instead, you trot out the gaping open door of science that fish farms use to manipulate the situation and stay in the water. They have been using science since the 70s in this manner: the science says we didn’t do that, we need more science. When the science comes in they say, the science doesn’t say we are the problem… we need more science…

You can expect the Liberals to lose those 18 seats in BC if you do this.

Why not get ahead of the curve and realize that in-ocean is going to be put out of business in North America by the on-land movement in the States. Atlantic Sapphire, Whole Oceans, Nordic Aquafarms and Aquabanc, at 218mt at grow out will be almost 250% bigger than in BC and will take its major market because consumers don’t want in-ocean fish farm fish. Then there is the PE Fund in Asia, aiming at 260,000mt on land, will take a big bite of the rest of BC’s markets. And globally, I have found 259 on-land fish farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.

In-ocean is a decade out of date. Wake up, and start giving out on-land licences for free and on-land subsidies. This is what Norway is doing because it is fed up with in-ocean environmental damage, a $9- to $12-million subsidy based on the in-ocean auction price of a licence in 2014.

The only reason that the Norwegian companies came to Canada was that we have less stringent laws than Norway.

See: From the fibbing article: “8. And why did Norwegian companies, Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafood come to Canada in the first place? They came to Canada/Chile/Etc. because of weaker laws:  http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/salmon-farming-problems/environmental-impacts/escapes-alien-species/. "The report Fishy Business: The Economics of Salmon Farming In BC notes that in the late 1980s, Norwegian companies were faced with strict environmental regulations and farm size restrictions in their own country, so they decided to expand in countries where regulations were less strict (i.e. Canada, Chile)."”

Wake up Liberal party.

DC Reid