British Columbia should follow Washington State’s lead by removing salmon farms from the ocean.
Washington State legislature recently passed a bill to have all salmon farms removed from the U.S. ocean by 2025.
In doing this they recognized how important wild salmon are and acted to protect them from sea lice and disease pathogens that get transferred to wild salmon from these salmon farms.
With sockeye salmon stocks returning to the Fraser and locally the Birkenhead River at all time low numbers, the future of these iconic salmon is grim with the risks posed to them by salmon farms.
Let’s hope that Premier John Horgan will do the same! We need to protect our wild salmon stocks and make them a priority ahead of farmed salmon, that threaten their future.
Dave Brown
Whistler
