DFO's Assessment of Fish Farms Misses Key Threats to Wild Salmon
September 30, 2020
September 30, 2020
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 30 -- The David Suzuki Foundation issued the following news release:
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans remains blind to threats of the open net-pen fish farms in the Discovery Islands to wild salmon. DFO's risk assessments of nine pathogens potentially threatening wild salmon have considerable scientific uncertainty. DFO did not assess the cumulative effects of these pathogens at all. An even more glaring omission is the lack of assessment reg . . .
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans remains blind to threats of the open net-pen fish farms in the Discovery Islands to wild salmon. DFO's risk assessments of nine pathogens potentially threatening wild salmon have considerable scientific uncertainty. DFO did not assess the cumulative effects of these pathogens at all. An even more glaring omission is the lack of assessment reg . . .