The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has proposed aquaculture regulations that risk making an already untenable situation surrounding net-cage aquaculture worse. The proposed regulations authorize the deposit of prescribed substances without consideration of site-specific conditions and variables or potential environmental or cumulative effects, requirements for monitoring or the imposition of time limits to allow a response to changes in the receiving environment, or First Nations consultation and public participation in decisions to allow pollution in wild fish habitats.
Click below to read West Coast Environmental Law's comments to DFO about the proposed Regulations.