Salmon Farms: Sea Lice and Salmon

salmon farms: Sea lice from open-net fish farms are contributing to the massive decline in wild salmon stocks, the First Nations Leadership Council stated Thursday, according to National Observer. Terry Teegee, Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, along with other FNLC leaders says sea lice from salmon farms is contributing to the collapse of wild salmon. And on Monday, NDP critic for Fisheries and Oceans Gord Johns also demanded the federal government fulfil its promise to transition to closed containment aquaculture made during the last election. Photo courtesy BCAFN. The federal and provincial governments have been taking a piecemeal approach to this problem, with long timeframes for transition to closed containment pens, and only in a few places, said Terry Teegee, regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations. Reports published by international aquaculture companies Mowi, Cermaq and Grieg, suggest 35 per cent of salmon farms along the B.C. coast exceeded federal sea lice limits, FNLC stated. What people are readingU.S. strong-armed Canada into calamitous Meng strategy Shifting to electric vehicles requires economic incentives, just ask Norway Sunshine Coast community members raise concerns over logging We need to end salmon farming in our open oceans now to protect both wild salmon and Indigenous ways of being from extinction. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.