A group of more than 50 B.C. chefs is telling the provincial government to stop salmon-farming leases in a bid to protect wild salmon.
The chefs, along with environmental crusader David Suzuki, held a news conference in Vancouver on Thursday to urge B.C. to terminate 20, open net-pen, salmon-farm tenures coming up for renewal in June in the Broughton Archipelago, a wild-salmon migratory route.
The group has written a letter outlining its concerns to Doug Donaldson, the B.C. minister of forests, lands, natural-resource operations and rural development, and Lana Popham, the minister of agriculture.
David Hawksworth, the chef at Hawksworth Restaurant, said in a statement that it is vital to develop and maintain sustainable food sources. “It’s clear that these salmon farms are bad for the fish and the environment and, as a result, our industry,” he said.
Tiffany Crawford – Vancouver Sun – April 5, 2018.
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