Hi Bernadette Jordan, Min of DFO
Please send me a link or copy of the study you are doing on
on-land fish farms.
This sure looks like your staff does not know the industry
as well as those of use who write about it do.
For example, my list of on-land fish farms around the world
has 308 different farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.
This means that on-land, despite negative crowing to the opposite by the
industry, is well established, and the in-ocean industry is on its last legs as
on-land will take away its markets. This post has lots of studies and financial
documents in it.
In North America for instance, Atlantic Sapphire, on land in
Florida, when fully operational will be more than twice the entire Canadian
market in the USA, at 260,000MT. The Canadian farms need to be on land or they
are going to be wiped out. In addition, there are a half dozen other on-land
farms coming on stream in the USA. BC’s market is 85% to the USA. They will be
wiped out in the next few years, unless they come out of the water because
consumers are fed up with in-ocean pollution.
That is the reality, and if your staff say different, I am
sorry to say, they don’t know what they are talking about. In the past year,
for example, my list of positive stories, studies, economic comparisons about on-land farms has
grown to 300 articles/studies. That is the reality: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html.
I suggest your staff start catching up with what the rest of us commentators
already know.
The other side of this story is that because of DFO
mismanagement for the past 50 years, wild salmon are in crisis in BC. You need
to do something. Your Big Bar project is just one project on one river. Your
program on habitat restoration across BC has serious flaws. Here is one post on
it that you can read, illustrating problems and giving links to another post on
the flaws with your habitat restoration program: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/11/salmon-habitat-restoration-raincoast.html.
The post also lays out a good method to solve chinook salmon
problems in BC.
Thanks
DC (Dennis) Reid
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