Canada: Salmon farming transition plan is just a plan to create a plan

By Fabian Dawson SeaWestNews The Liberal Government’s long-awaited blueprint to transition British Columbia’s salmon farming sector has finally surfaced, but it’s hardly the robust roadmap many were hoping for. Instead, what has been unveiled is a draft plan —a plan to create a plan— for the sector and thousands of aquaculture workers in indigenous and non-indigenous coastal communities, who will be directly impacted by a ban on open-net salmon farming in BC after 2029. Amid plummeting poll numbers, the Liberal government disregarding advice from its own scientists—who have determined that the salmon farms present minimal risk to wild stocks—announced the controversial ban on open-net salmon farming last June. This move has been widely denounced as a politically motivated endeavor to garner favor with urban-Liberal constituencies and activists opposed to fish farming, at the expense of the economic stability of aquaculture-reliant rural communities. The Coalition of First Nations ...