Canada: New Fisheries Minister no fan of salmon farms in BC’s oceans

Despite her record as being opposed to open-net salmon farms in BC’s oceans, the aquaculture industry says it will work with Joyce Murray, Canada’s new Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, to achieve the next level of sustainable seafood production By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews Joyce Murray a prominent advocate to end open-net salmon farming in British Columbia, has been appointed as Canada’s new Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. The veteran MP for Vancouver-Quadra had signed a recent pre-election petition organised by anti-fish farm activists, to end open-net salmon aquaculture which provides B.C.’s highest valued seafood product and generates over $1.6-billion towards the B.C. economy, supporting nearly 6,500 jobs, mostly in rural, coastal and Indigenous communities. “As Vancouver Quadra’s MP. I led the push for our Government’s commitment to setting a fixed-end date for open-net pens, and transitioning to an environmentally safer way of raising salmon, while protecting remote ...