No end to arguments over fish farms

Les Leyne
May 12, 2010
The Times Colonist

There was a face-off in a Parliament Hill committee room a few weeks before Alexandra Morton started her march to Victoria that illustrates how confusing the fish farm issue is.

Morton testified by video-conference and briefed MPs on her belief that net-pen fish farms breed sea lice and diseases that infect wild salmon and are mostly responsible for declining wild runs.

Two days later, the provincial government's ranking aquatic veterinarian testified to the opposite.

It's entirely in keeping with the flavour of this argument that the scientific back and forth got ignored and the walk to Victoria got all the attention.

That seems to reconfirm that this is a political argument, not a scientific one.

And it's going to be resolved politically, not with some smoking-gun scientific discovery.

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