The Edge of Catastrophe
Ray Grigg
July 24, 2009
Courier Islander
Everyone who cares about the future of wild salmon on BC's West Coast should now have a sickening feeling in the pit of their stomachs. The recent decision of the Strathcona Regional District to zone Gunner Point for a huge open net-pen salmon farm is just another disquieting step in the fiasco that is endangering wild stocks, the linchpin of the region's entire marine ecology. So, unless an uncharacteristic epiphany stops the project or immediately converts it to closed containment, a major source of sea lice infection will be placed at the intersection of Sunderland Channel and Johnstone Strait, a major artery in the out-migration of about one-third of BC's wild salmon.
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Posted July 24th, 2009
