Class-Action motion filed by BC First Nations in Salmon Farming Case

Drum News Staff
May 6th, 2009
Drum News

VANCOUVER May 6, 2009 - Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation's (KAFN) has filed a class action law suit against the British Columbia Government alleging that wild salmon are being decimated by open net-cage salmon farming in their Territories.

Bob Chamberlin, chief of the KAFN and the Representative Plaintiff in the court case, said, “Legal action is necessary given that intervention is urgently needed to save the wild salmon of our Territory, the Broughton Archipelago.”

“Despite years of intensive efforts to engage the B.C. government to achieve improvements to salmon farming regulation and thereby reduce the impacts to wild salmon, the response has been to delay, deny and distract."

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