The licenses for all 19 salmon farms in the Discovery Islands expire in June. There will only be 7 farms left in the Broughton Archipelago by 2023, at which point their tenure ends unless they can obtain First Nations approval and Department of Fisheries licences. That leaves an estimated 79 salmon farms throughout the province, and all of their licenses come up for renewal on June 30, 2022.
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MOWI: Closing down a processing plant and removing another fish farm
MOWI Canada West is closing down its processing plant in Surrey and another fish farm has left the Broughton Archipelago.
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Twelve fish farm applications: are fish farms really leaving BC’s open waters by 2025?
BC Salmon farming companies applied to put in a new fish farm between the Discovery Islands and Broughton Archipelago and expand their existing facilities at 11 other locations around Vancouver Island.
Two of the expansions, at Dixon Bay and Plover Point in Clayoquot Sound, have already been granted.
“We had a promise from federal government whereby they said in mandate letters to the minister of fisheries, they were going to transition the open net salmon farming industry out of BC by 2025,” explained Stan Proboszcz, Science Advisor of the Watershed Watch Salmon Society.
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The BC Salmon Farmers Association new ‘independent’ sea lice report
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The BC Salmon Farmers Association has just released what they claim is an independent study of ‘Sea lice in the Discovery Islands.’
Their study is filled with terms like – “independent data,” “independently collected data,” “independent professional biological consultants,” “independently collected and analyzed scientific data,” “independent monitoring,” “independent sampling,” and “independent biologists” – but does not say who actually did the research.
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Last fish farm leaves the southern Discovery Islands
CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton posted a picture of the Raza Island fish farm leaving the Discovery Islands to her Facebook page on Aug. 5.
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