BC Says NO to In-ocean Fish Farms - Can You Hear Us In Ottawa?? - Updated March 24, 2019

Hi Jonathan Wilkinson (min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)

You liberals need to wake up.

BC residents value wild salmon as highly as Quebec does French. How come, as a BC resident, you don’t know this?

I have a new post on the avalanche of global news on on-land fish farm development around the world – almost 100 entries so far: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/links-to-on-land-closed-containment.html. In-ocean is old tech, and the US market is going to be taken over by its upcoming on-land farms: Atlantic Sapphire, Nordic Aquafarms, Whole Oceans and Aquabanc - 218,000mt more than double the BC industry. Then there is the PE group aiming for 260,000mt around the world, starting in China, Italy, France and the USA. And my list has all these and far more, now 271 on land fish farms systems around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.

Yet, you are so clued out, based in Ottawa, that you have forgotten how much BC hates in-ocean fish farms:

https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2019/02/14/canadas-wilkinson-eager-for-study-to-help-direct-british-columbias-aquaculture-path/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=500e18cd0a-Americas_briefing_Feb_14_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-500e18cd0a-92426209. There is no such thing as closed containment in the ocean, and off shore just causes massive eutrophication of the entire world’s oceans, farms tripling in size. My calculation is that the BC industry has cost us taxpayers $10.4 Billion already in sewage cost. Wake up.

Put a fish farm in the Rideau Canal in Ottawa and see how long it is until you hate it. Wake up.

Remember that you bought the KM pipeline with our billions of dollars, something you will get badly dinged for in the upcoming election. No wonder Justin is holding off on this one until afterwards.

You also fired Jody Wilson-Reybould, which is just as bad. Now Justin is wearing the issue having stated she had an obligation to tell him. Talk about trying to turn the situation on its head.

You need a good news story: Wilkinson Backs On-land Fish Farms in BC, why you can even write it based on the 60 posts in the first link above. You may even save your bacon, er, fillet.

And you blew the announcement with Horgan of $143M for wild salmon, saying, vaguely, that you support science, for continuing fish farms, but no specific amount of $$ for wild salmon habitat restoration. Why not?

DC Reid

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Take a look at Alex Morton summing up the court decision against DFO in the PRV situation, even though Jon says PRV ain't a problem:  https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.morton.1671/videos/2398538087041405/.