Moe Isaac walks along the dock at Midsummer Island, past colourful protest signs under a heavy November sky.
Rain came down like a curtain yesterday and today the clouds have an ashen glow.
Isaac, who manages the Marine Harvest salmon farm, steps up to the edge of a pen in his work boots and worn orange life-jacket. Beyond his toes, the surface of the water breaks every few seconds — sliced by a dorsal fin or rippled by a leaping fish.
About 53,000 Atlantic salmon swim in this 30-by-30-foot pen. When all the pens are full, the farm holds just over half a million of them. For those who fear open-net farms like this one will mean the end of wild stocks, the concentration of fish represents an incubator for parasites and disease.
Amy Smart – Times Colonist – December 4, 2017.
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