Aquaculture director defends salmon farming in Newfoundland from critics
SEAFOODNEWS.COM April 24, 2014
Miranda Pryor is the executive director Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association
To the Editor, St. John's Telegram:
I am writing in response to the April 4 letter submitted by Paul Michael White. Given his stated family connections to the wild Atlantic salmon fishery, he of all people should know that most of the declines in wild Atlantic salmon populations started in the 1970s and 1980s in Newfoundland and Labrador and across Atlantic Canada.
In fact, the government bought out commercial Atlantic salmon licences in the early 1990s when a moratorium was imposed due to the poor status of wild populations.
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