Submitter: Candis Knutsen

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: June 26, 2023

Summary:

All fish farms must be removed from Okisollo and Hoskyn Channels and the Broughton Archipelago. This is a necessary emergency measure to protect wild salmon, including Fraser River Sockeye, from sea lice infection from fish farms.

Submission:

Emergency Measures Needed in the Wild Salmon Narrows

Five open net-cage salmon farms must be permanently removed from a salmon migration route in the northern Georgia Strait in order to protect thousands of juvenile salmon from sea lice and other potentially fatal diseases.



Georgia Strait Alliance, with our partners at the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, are demanding that all fish farms be removed from Okisollo and Hoskyn Channels along the east and north of Quadra Island in the Wild Salmon Narrows. This is a necessary emergency measure to protect wild salmon, including Fraser River Sockeye, from sea lice infection from fish farms.



Please also include the fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago.