Pro-salmon coalition takes B.C. to court over fish farms

Stephen Hume
May 7, 2008
Vancouer Sun

Debate over the future of fish farming on British Columbia's coast moved from skirmishing in scientific journals to a full-blown court battle Tuesday.

This time it's a challenge to the constitutional legality of the B.C. government regulating the same salmon farms whose rapid expansion it enthusiastically promoted.

For some time controversy has fulminated over threats to wild salmon posed by the industry, particularly in the Broughton archipelago at the north end of Vancouver Island where research links sea lice infestations in domestic pens to declines in wild stocks that must migrate through adjacent, parasite-laden waters.

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