Fish Farms out of Discovery, Cohen Recommendation, Deadline September 30, 2020

I sent the following post to the ENGOs in BC to help them in their response to the rapidly approaching September 30 Cohen deadline to get fish farms out of the water. Please feel free to use the two lists in shaping your letter to the Liberal govt about it's promise to meet all of Cohen's recommendations.
Hi Everyone

I pass on two lists regarding on-land fish farms in advance of the Sept 30, 2020 Cohen deadline about getting fish farms out of Discovery Passage. Use them in addressing Trudeau and Jordan.

They should help you with two things: on-land is now mainstream and if the BC industry doesn’t come on-land it will likely be wiped out as 85% of its product goes to the USA, but the on-land movement there is aimed at quadruple the metric tonnes, Atlantic Sapphire, alone, aiming for 160,000 to begin with, and 250,000 in its plans, triple BC.

I started noticing a steady stream of articles/papers/analyses about on-land in the global seafood press about 18 months ago, and started a post to put them together in one place. In that short period, I have found an avalanche of interest, exceeding 500 items. On-land is mainstream, despite what fish farms might say.

This link lists the first 500 articles/papers I have found about on-land: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html.

This link lists the 326 on-land fish farms I have found: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. The list starts halfway down the post, so scroll down to it.

And the third thing is low employment: fish farms always say they bring employment to ‘down on their luck, remote’ communities. This post thoroughly addresses that employment has been in decline for decades, and that Norwegian automation suggests that in Canada we could face an additonal 80% cut in jobs, when it is brought here. We don’t need to destroy our wild areas.

This post is dense, so if you are pressed for time, find the Inga Milewski article link on employment and read it. It is the best paper I have ever read on the subject: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/fish-farm-problems-on-global-scale-inka.html. The link to the BC Stats Report is in this post, the best stats on the BC ‘fishing sectors.’
DC (Dennis) Reid