Remove fish farms, an urgent threat to B.C. wild salmon!
Fish farms, stocked with Atlantic salmon that are invasive to our west coast, are infecting wild Pacific salmon and seriously threatening their health and existence by widely spreading lice, pathogens and other pollutants into the waters they travel.
In Atlantic Canada, there are similar concerns about the impact of fish farms on wild salmon, lobster, crab and other marine life.
Communities that depend on wild salmon and other marine life are suffering.
The science is clear!
Many First Nations have long opposed these farms, and many organizations are campaigning against them. Governments are beginning to respond and the multi-national fish farm companies are fighting back in the courts.
Nation-wide recognition of the salmon farm threat, and political pressure to remove it, are desperately needed.
Take action to help save BC’s wild salmon and the communities that depend on them.
Call on our federal government to announce a comprehensive plan for removing all the fish farms by 2025
After the last two federal elections, the fisheries minister was mandated to remove floating, open-net fish farms from B.C. coastal waters by 2025.
Since July 2022, the minister and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been conducting consultations on a plan for fulfilling that mandate. The plan is to be announced in the fall of 2023. Alarmingly, the minister has indicated that the plan may not require the removal of the farms but only modifications to the technology, viewed by many as being unproven. So, wild salmon will still be at risk in some areas, and the time is now to let the minister know we want all the farms out!
Click here to send a letter to Minister Diane Lebouthillier demanding she announce a comprehensive plan for fulfilling their promise to remove all the farms by 2025. Time is running out for our wild salmon!