Ottawa’s fish-farm transition plan could sink industry if mishandled, businesses say

By the end of this month, federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier is expected to decide whether to renew 66 federal licences for salmon farms in B.C.Fish farm opponents and the First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance are lobbying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Lebouthillier to live up to Trudeau’s 2019 election promise to “transition” open-net salmon farms out of coastal waters in B.C.

Trudeau’s mandate to fisheries ministers has been to develop a transition plan for B.C. salmon farms by 2025. Anti-fish-farm activists understandably interpreted that to mean all open-net salmon farms would have to be out of the water by 2025. Technological approaches include a laser system made by Stingray Marine Solutions that zaps sea lice in salmon farms with lasers, eliminating the need for pesticides.

Sonia Strobel, CEO and co-founder of Skipper Otto, which supports mom-and-pop commercial fishers through their seafood subscription business, wants open-net salmon farms shut down. She said she believes they are a real threat to wild salmon, and fears the original mandate for transitioning salmon farms is being watered down to allow for the hybrid systems supported by industry.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada said in a 2019 report that such systems were ready for commercial development in B.C., but large land-based recirculating aquaculture systems in Florida and Nova Scotia have so far proven to be major money losers.

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