Canada farm closures 'are hurting technology investment'? - Not likely

Quote: The decision by Canadian fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan to close 19 salmon farms in British Columbia has had “an immediate chilling effect on investments in technology and innovation” in the aquaculture industry, according to Tim Kennedy, chief executive of the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA).

Oh yeah? Not really.

Read the article on Fish Farming Expert by the aquaculture lobby in BC.

See: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/canada-farm-closures-are-hurting-technology-investment/?utm_campaign=newsletter__11_02_2021&utm_source=netflex&utm_medium=email.

Here is what I wrote to Jordan on this issue:

Hi Ms Jordan

Here is what I wrote to Fish Farming Expert on an industry lobby letter to you and Trudeau about fish farms in BC.

DC (Dennis) Reid

From: dcreid@dcreid.ca Sent: February 11, 2021 8:08 AM To: 'editor@fishfarmingexpert.com' ; DC Reid

Subject: Canada farm closures 'are hurting technology investment'

Hi Fish Farming Expert

Just so you know, 75% of BC residents (in a poll), that’s 3.8Million people, want fish farms out of the water.

Why don’t they just get with it and move to land? Based on the US growth, the BC industry is going to be wiped out by the burgeoning US on-land industry.

The govt should: retrain workers, offer zero dollar licenses, with $1M for in water, offer $1M for land purchases, or offer Crown land leases for setting up on-land.

And those studies by DFO, it deliberately did not test the one thing that would put fish farms out of the water, and everyone in BC knows it: lice. That is fraudulent, and DFO is not liked by BC because they have been managing wild salmon into extinction for the past 50 years.

It studied diseases, some of which have already happened in wild salmon in BC: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/cohen/iles-discovery-islands-eng.html.

And, just so you know, employment in fish farms has dropped 5.3% in the past 20 years in BC, and dropped 32% in Eastern Canada. So the jobs and revenue spin is not true.

Also, employment will drop almost ten times once the Norway automation is brought to BC. That is because Norway produces 10 times the salmon that BC does with double the employment: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/fish-farm-problems-on-global-scale-inka.html. Read the Miliewski paper.

DC (Dennis) Reid