Originally posted in The Chilliwack Progress
It was just one sentence about removing open-net fish farms from B.C. waters by 2025.
The PM’s letter pledges to: “Work with the province of British Columbia and Indigenous communities to create a responsible plan to transition from open net-pen salmon farming in coastal British Columbia waters by 2025, and begin work to introduce Canada’s first-ever Aquaculture Act.”
Originally published in the Herald Tribune
Florida’s coast is in trouble: One of the worst and longest “red tides” in state history ran from 2017 to 2019, killing hundreds of marine mammals, turtles, and fish, and now it’s back; we also are experiencing the biggest Sargassum “seaweed” bloom in the world; and a devastating widespread coral die-off continues.
All of these are suspected to be related to pollution, as too many chemicals from sewage and other wastewater flow into ocean and coastal waters around Florida.
As the ecosystem struggles to recover, a new threat looms — one that will dump even more pollutants into marine waters and worsen the impacts of the red tide. It is a threat most Florida residents are completely unaware of: industrial ocean finfish farming.
