SRD directors rethink, offer Grieg compromise

Dan MacLennan
June 25,2009
Courier-Islander

Grieg Seafood will receive rezoning approval to locate a huge fish farm next to Johnstone Strait, but there are closed containment strings and other measures attached.

Grieg had applied to the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) to rezone two sites - Gunner Point and Yorke Island - near the Johnstone Strait mouth of Sunderland Channel north of Sayward. Each site was to accommodate up to 700,000 Atlantic salmon.

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Read related articles:

• CBC.ca; June 26, 2009; "Fish farm off Vancouver Island worries environmentalists"
• The Globe and Mail; August 25, 2009; "Gunner Point fish farm on track despite concerns over vanishing sockeye"

 See chart of proposed farm's location from the Living Oceans Society