Giving the Vancouver Sun some Stats on how Small the Fish Farm Industry is.

Look at the Van Sun article: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/dfo-report-suggests-alternatives-to-open-net-salmon-farms-in-b-c-but-next-step-unclear?mc_cid=fe3237f704&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

Now read my response to TI Crawford who wrote the article and which I ground proofed. And note my four point plan to put fish farms on land as noted below.

Hi TI Crawford.

Contrary to industry/DFO assertions, fish farms are much smaller than their claims. For example, the employment claim is 7000 jobs in the industry.

This is directly contradicted by the Province’s BC Stats Report. It says only 1800 so the industry claim is almost 400% too high.

See my post: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/mar-21-2019-bc-stats-report-2016.html.

You will note that jobs have been declining since 2000, at 5.3%.

Fish farms like to claim that on-land is not possible for monetary or other reasons. Well, my list now has found 372 on-land fish farms all around the world. So on-land is common.

See my link: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.

And despite fish farms claiming that jobs in the Discovery Islands are 1500, my calculations puts the number at only 212, or only 13.1% of the industry claim: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2021/01/another-sleepless-night-thousands-of-bc.html.

Note that I have a four point plan to put fish farms on land in this post. Also, when all the US on-land plans come to fruition, they will wipe out the BC industry as 85% of their product goes to the States.

You might want to cruise my site when you are looking for stats on fish farms. And point out my four point plan.

DC(Dennis) Reid