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Summaries of submissions received by the commission are listed below. Click on the name of a submission to read it in its entirety. The number attached to each submission is used for internal tracking purposes and does not reflect the number of submissions received to that point.
The commission accepts submissions in both English and French, and submissions are displayed below in their original language. Submission summaries, however, are available in both English and French.
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The summaries, submissions and comments displayed below and on subsequent pages do not necessarily represent the views of the Commissioner.
Submission ListTo read a submission in full, click a submitter’s name/number. |
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Submitter: Jonathan Hill Community: Coquitlam Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Aquaculture businesses must demonstrate environmental neutrality with respect to their operations and should fund testing. |
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Submitter: Marc DeGagne Community: Winnipeg Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: People must be willing to pay a higher price for responsibly raised closed containment farmed salmon. |
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Submitter: Jill Schroder Community: Vancouver Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Salmon farm disease records should be available to the public. |
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Submitter: Colleen Underwood Community: Cowichan Bay Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Release the facts and help us to save wild salmon. |
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Submitter: Amy McConnell Community: Parksville Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: We have a right to see the fish farm disease records. |
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Submitter: Erin Crampton Community: Winnipeg Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: What is this inquiry doing for our Canadian waters and fish stocks? |
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Submitter: Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society Community: Olympia Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Given the potential global impacts, it is vitally important that any and all disease and treatment data associated with open salmon feedlots be made available to the public. |
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Submitter: laura finch Community: Duncan Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2023 Summary: Make public the disease records from the Marine Harvest fish farm company. |
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Submitter: Rick Driedger Community: Smithers Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2023 Summary: If a majority of the population is not in favour of fish feed lots then the government must excise them out of our waters immediately. |
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Submitter: Cherizar Gagne Community: North Vancouver Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2023 Summary: To keep our province pristine, Dr. Miller must be allowed to test farmed salmon before the commission comes to any conclusions. |
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Submitter: ron schultz Community: Cityprince george Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: Test one fish from each fish farm immediately. |
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Submitter: Holly Arntzen Community: Crofton Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: Dr. Kristi Miller must be allowed to test Atlantic salmon from fish farms. |
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Submitter: Alexis Baker Community: Vancouver Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: It is not acceptable for the hearings to end before Atlantic farmed fish in BC is tested. |
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Submitter: Anissa Reed Community: Qualicum Beach Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: The inquiry cannot come to a proper conclusion until Kristi Miller is allowed to test farmed Atlantic salmon. |
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Submitter: Charles Stewart Community: Penticton Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: Funding should be found for Dr. Kristi Miller to carry out her research. |
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Submitter: Charles Stewart Community: Penticton Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: Not only is salmon farming a root cause of the degradation of wild stocks, so is our pollution of the rivers and oceans. |
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Submitter: Derek Stobbart Community: Vancouver Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2023 Summary: DFO should act on the risk from fish farms to protect the wild fish stocks and the health of the oceans. |
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Submitter: garret schumacher Community: squamish Date Submitted: Aug 24, 2023 Summary: The most sustainable way for recovery of the sockeye would be to only allow personal harvest and close commercial harvest until the salmon stocks have recovered. |
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Submitter: Bruce Probert Community: Aldergrove, Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2023 Summary: What is the relationship between Management Adjustment for Fraser sockeye and Management Adjustment applied to other salmon species co-migrating within the same environmental conditions? |
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Submitter: Bruce Probert Community: Aldergrove, Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2023 Summary: Overescapement will ensure that even strong stocks will become weak stocks. |