Cooke Fish-Farm Collapse with Thousands of Escapes Spawns Rise in B.C. anti-salmon farm Activism
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Business Vancouver] September 13, 2017
When news broke of the escape of more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon from a collapsed fish farm in Washington state on August 19, British Columbians could have been forgiven for thinking: “Washington state has fish farms?”
The salmon farming industry in the state is small compared with B.C.’s and has not experienced the same level of scrutiny and criticism from environmentalists and First Nations.
The incident in Washington resulted in a ratcheting up of anti-fish-farm activism in B.C. First Nations from three different tribal groups in the Broughton Archipelago region – aided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and anti-fish-farm campaigner ...
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