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LETTER: Remove open-net fish farms

Our new Minister of Fisheries Bernadette Jordan was recently quoted in The Narwhal magazine as believing that the mandate letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only requires her to legislate a plan to remove open-net salmon farms from our pacific

Our new Minister of Fisheries Bernadette Jordan was recently quoted in The Narwhal magazine as believing that the mandate letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only requires her to legislate a plan to remove open-net salmon farms from our pacific tidal waters by 2025, not to actually remove them.

This obfuscation is a recipe for disaster. I sincerely fear our wild salmon will not survive another 10 years of decline.

Liberal MP Patrick Weiler assured me pre-election that he shared his predecessors Pamela Goldsmith-Jones and John Weston’s strong opinions regarding the importance to transition Atlantic salmon farms from our Pacific tidal waters onto land as soon as possible.

I emailed our MP Patrick Weiler the day I read about this latest delay tactic a week ago.

I hope to eventually get a response that he is working hard in Ottawa pursuing funds in the upcoming budget to assist in this transition.

Please contact Weiler at [email protected], or at any other opportunity to ask him to seek funds in this budget to help make this transition happen asap.

Jim Horner

Whistler

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