Federal decision to shut down Vancouver Island salmon farms prompts company court challenge

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Mowi's application seeks an order quashing or setting aside Murray's decision to shut down the company's 11 open-net salmon farms located off the Discovery Islands, near Campbell River.

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VANCOUVER — A British Columbia salmon farming company is going to court to challenge the federal government’s decision not to renew the licences for its open-net farms off Vancouver Island. It asks the court to have the matter referred back to Murray and a declaration the minister’s February decision was “unreasonable, invalid and unlawful.”

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Is this the court action a FN band and several other companies are involved in, or are their multiple court challenges?

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