Opponents fight fish farm approval

Opponents of a St. Mary’s Bay fish farm are confident a provincial government decision to allow the operation can be quashed. "Most definitely," Karen Crocker, chairwoman of the St. Mary’s Bay Coastal Alliance, said Friday."We have been looking at our options. We’ve been in discussions for several months now with eco-justice lawyers and we definitely are not done with trying to have this decision overturned."

Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Sterling Belliveau recently approved two fish farms, as did Ottawa, off Long Island. Cooke Aquaculture of New Brunswick has received the nod to go ahead with the Digby County farms as part of a planned CAN$150 (€106.992) million expansion in Nova Scotia involving Digby, Shelburne and Truro, a company source said last week. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers