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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: D. Drumm Community: Binbrook Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: I applaud the decision to make public the scientific data that suggests a link between wild salmon mortality and disease from farmed fish. |
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Submitter: Joan McConnell Community: Saltspring Island Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Err on the side of caution. Fish farms should await further research to prove they do no harm. |
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Submitter: Nancy Westwood Community: Parksville Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Fish farms, like any other industrial farm, need to contain and treat effluent. Those who covered up evidence of a virus need to be reprimanded in serious ways. |
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Submitter: Albert A. Gustaveson Community: Marcell Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Factory salmon farms are killing BC’s native salmon. |
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Submitter: Saul Arbess Community: Victoria Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: The commission should recommend that the BC government remove all salmon farms from sockeye migration routes. |
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Submitter: Pacific Smoked Salmon ltd Community: Courtenay Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Farmed Atlantic salmon must be taken out of the Pacific Ocean. |
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Submitter: lorna denning Community: victoria,b.c. Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Remove fish farms from BC coastal waters. |
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Submitter: Hans Terlingen, MD Community: Tofino Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: There is cause for charges of conspiracy in the organization that is supposed to protect all fish. |
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Submitter: Charlotte Inman Community: Abbotsford Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: All fish farms must be removed from our coastal waters. |
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Submitter: Shannon Dovey Community: Sidney Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Get fish farms out of our oceans now. |
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Submitter: lyle koenders Community: alert bay Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Save wild salmon from fish farm diseases and pollution. |
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Submitter: Marianne Ketchen Community: North Vancouver Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Stop knowingly killing the ocean floor. |
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Submitter: Rick Ulmer Community: Salmon Arm Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: The small benefits of the fish farm industry to BC cannot be compared to the magnitude of the benefits of Fraser River sockeye. |
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Submitter: Stephen Garnett Community: Cowichan Bay Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2023 Summary: Close the fish farms before it is too late. |
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Submitter: Mark Ethier Community: Burnaby Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Fish farms have caused the “disappearance” of wild salmon and should not be allowed to continue to operate in open water. |
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Submitter: Frances Riley Community: Prince Rupert Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: The commission should consider all the biological evidence from the fish farm disease database. |
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Submitter: Elizabeth Borek Community: Victoria Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Fish farms are the source of disease killing wild salmon and must be removed at no cost to BC taxpayers. |
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Submitter: Barry Magrill Community: Richmond Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Get rid of farmed salmon. |
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Submitter: NEVILLE BRADLEY Community: COQUITLAM Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: Don’t eat farmed salmon. |
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Submitter: Gordon Wadley Community: Smithers Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023 Summary: The Commissioner must sanction those responsible for harming wild salmon stocks. |