Sentences with phrase «open net pens»
Because farmed salmon are in open net pens and share water with nearby wild salmon, the parasites can transmit to young wild salmon who wouldn't normally encounter sea lice until later in life.
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Read this May 1 Chek story on a new poll conducted by Mainstreet Research, revealing that a majority of British Columbians — especially strong on Vancouver Island — would support banning open net pen Atlantic salmon farms.
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The project comes from a desire to find an alternative to farming Atlantic salmon in open net - pens.
They suggest two options — either put farmed fish in fully enclosed pens instead of the open nets currently used.
Containment tanks prevent escapes and problems with sea lice infestation that have plagued open - net ocean pen operations.
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We work to limit the harmful impacts of open - net - pen fish farms on wild Pacific salmon.
The evidence shows that densely populated open net - pen salmon farms can result in both farmed and adjacent wild fish becoming unhealthy, primarily from piscine reovirus and sea lice.
The B.C. government is currently considering renewing tenures for 20 open net - pen salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago, a wild salmon migratory route.
With Washington State's decision to phase out open net - pen Atlantic salmon aquaculture farms last month, B.C. is the only jurisdiction on the west coast of North America to allow them.
VANCOUVER — A coalition of more than 50 of British Columbia's best - known chefs convened today in Vancouver, alongside scientist David Suzuki, to call on the provincial government to protect wild salmon by terminating open net - pen salmon farm tenures opposed by First Nations as they begin to come up for renewal in June.
The group has written a letter to B.C. Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Doug Donaldson and Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham outlining concerns around open net - pen salmon farms, as well as their request to end the leases.
A British Columbia first nation announced Wednesday that it will launch a class - action lawsuit against the B.C. and federal government for a second time to end commercial open net - pen salmon farming in the Broughton Archipelago.