Sea lice have infested so many fish farms in Clayoquot Sound, a famed UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, that even Cermaq, a fully owned subsidiary of the Mitsubushi Corporation, has called the plague “challenging.”
In a prepared statement the company has said that it will not sell the infested fish under its “eco-label” from its affected sites.
“We are using multiple tools in the immediate term, including depopulating affected farms while treating others with an environmentally safe hydrogen peroxide bath now that we have received a licence for that approach,” David Kiemele, managing director for Cermaq Canada, writes in the statement.
But critics say the company is doing too little too late and that outbreak is just another illustration that industry’s impact on wild fish and other marine life can’t be properly regulated.
Andrew Nikiforuk – TheTyee – May 17, 2018.
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