The Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) will be holding its 2022 convention in Whistler on September 12 -16. Local governments traditionally seek interviews with high level provincial officials. The interviews can be up to 15 minutes long and cover up to 3 topics. The SRD chose their topics at the Wednesday June 15 Board meeting.
Continue reading What to discuss with the Premier and Minister of Municipal Affairs
Sometime in the next three weeks, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Joyce Murray, will decide whether the licenses for 79 fish farms will be renewed.
“I heard a rumour that the minister laid out her options or her ideas to cabinet and cabinet has the plans right now. They’re figuring out what to do. We can expect an announcement quite shortly on the plan around the transition of farms out of British Columbia and also the licensing decision,” said Stan Proboszcz, senior scientist with the Watershed Watch Salmon Society.
Continue reading Waiting for DFO to decide the fate of open-net pen fish farms
qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Sitting outside Powell River Outdoors, owner Sam Sansalone fiddles with a fish hook on the picnic table.
“Look out on the water, and tell me how many boats you see,” Sam says.
On a bright sunny day with calm water, there was a single sailboat that could be seen on the Salish Sea.
Continue reading Powell River’s Big 3 fish debates
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Pacific salmon are likely exposed to increased risks from pathogens concentrated in fish farms on the West Coast, two new scientific studies indicate.
Continue reading B.C. fish farms cultivate increased risks for wild salmon, new studies show(Click here to access other presentations taken from the Committee.)
One hundred and two British Columbian First Nations are calling for fish farms to move onto land. The Klahoose, Tla’amin, Homalco and K’omox First Nations are among them. On May 12, Chief Bob Chamberlain, Chair of the First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance, told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans that DFO is a captured regulator of the fish farm industry
Chamberlain began by addressing the committee in his native tongue.
This is a transcript of the rest of his opening presentation.
Continue reading First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance calls DFO a ‘captured regulator’ of the fish farm industry
