Remove fish farms, an urgent threat to B.C. wild salmon!

From 2018 to 2024, 49 open net-pen fish farms out of more than 100 have been removed from B.C.’s coast, mostly between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland.

These removals have been followed by substantial increases in the numbers of wild salmon returning to rivers where the farms used to spew lice and diseases into the outmigration routes of juvenile salmon.  More on this remarkable story can be found elsewhere on our website.

Removing salmon farms works to protect wild salmon!

Meanwhile, salmon populations impacted by the remaining farms, and communities that depend on wild salmon and other marine life, continue to suffer.

Take action to help save BC’s wild salmon and the communities that depend on them.

Call on our federal politicians to implement a comprehensive plan to remove all the fish farms by 2029.

The Government of Canada has placed a ban on all open net-pen fish farms starting in June 2029.  And it is well on the way to developing a plan that supports local and First Nations communities to transition away from dependence on the fish farm economy, and that protects wild salmon between now and then.  The “transition plan” is due to be finalized later this year.

The Wild Salmon Action Team and other organizations and First Nations are making substantial contributions to the creation of that plan.

With a federal election underway, now is the time to demand that politicians re-commit to the fish farm ban!  And to a just transition plan!

Click here to send a letter to political leaders and your candidates of all parties to take a stand for wild salmon!