KeEP B.C. BEAUTIFuL
LEt salmon farm expansion spoil the waters here instead
UNJUSTIFIED, UNNECESSARY, TOO RISKY
In British Columbia, the Government of Canada has ordered salmon farms out of the water by 2029. In Newfoundland and Labrador, the provincial governments, with support from Ottawa, is open to expansion. Beautiful B.C. shouldn’t come at a cost for Atlantic Canada, especially when salmon farms do greater harm on the East Coast than the west.
Let’s demand more from our leaders and the companies using public water for private profit.
FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGN TO STOP SALMON FARM EXPANSION
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INDUSTRY IN DECLINE
In Newfoundland and Labrador, salmon farming is a troubled business. It takes far more fish from the sea than it sells to grocery stores.
Despite massive grants and government loans and access to new growing areas, the production of farmed salmon peaked in 2016 and has been declining ever since. At the same time, serious disease outbreaks have been rising and mortality rates have climbed over 40 per cent.
At the same time, companies have left coves and beaches filled with industrial garbage – broken plastic, Styrofoam, netting, even abandoned boats.
Companies need to clean up their act, not move into new places.
NO NEED FOR EXPANSION
Salmon farming companies in Newfoundland and Labrador are only using a fraction of the leases they hold. There are 115 licenses active licenses in the province and only around 20 are stocked every year.
ASF supports efforts to strengthen environment protections and reform the salmon farming industry in Atlantic Canada, but allowing more net pens doesn’t make sense.
EXPANSION IS RISKING THE FUTURE
Atlantic Canadians pay a stiff price when governments pick winners and losers in the economy. When it comes to salmon farms, the losses could be forever. Our public waters are the last source of wild food in the world. Salmon aquaculture is pushing the agricultural frontier into the sea and bringing along all the problems of industrial animal farms.
Herring, lobster, tuna, sharks, birds, and whales have all been affected. Entire populations of wild Atlantic salmon have been genetically altered and collapsed. It’s time for leaders in Atlantic Canada to rethink the costs and benefits of open net-pen salmon farming, and it starts by saying no to expansion.