A month ago, federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced amendments to the federal Fisheries Act.
The proposed amendments include, for example, promoting restoration of degraded habitat and rebuilding of depleted fish stocks, allowing for better management of large and small projects that affect fish and fish habitat through a new permitting framework and codes of practice, creating new fisheries-management tools to enhance the protection of fish and ecosystems, and modernizing enforcement powers to address emerging fisheries issues.
That’s a lot of talk about protecting fish, fish habitat and fish stocks.
Here in British Columbia, that means salmon.Not three weeks after that announcement, a U.S. senator from Washington state called on the B.C. government to phase out ocean-based Atlantic-salmon farms. The state’s Senate and House of Representatives recently passed bills to phase out net-pen farms in its coastal waters when their leases come up for renewal over the next seven years.
Monique Keiran – Times Colonist – March 4, 2018.
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