Key salmon farming decision set for Thursday

Dan Maclennan
June 24,2009
Courier Islander

The next chapter in BC's salmon farming love/hate affair will play out in Campbell River tomorrow when rezoning applications for two new fish farms come before the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) for a decision.

Campbell River-based Grieg Seafood has applied to create a new Aquaculture Four (AQ-4) zone and use it to create two fish farm sites on either side of the mouth of Sunderland Channel at Gunner Point and Yorke Island. The channel runs between Harwicke Island and the mainland coast north of Sayward across Johnstone Strait. Each site would features 14 net cages, each measuring 30 metres x 30 metres. Each site could contain 700,000 Atlantic salmon, with a 22-month grow out period for a maximum production of 4,400 tonnes of biomass.

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