The road to Halifax salmon farm protester

A75 strong group of protesters from the Save Our Bay Alliance  gathered outside Province House in Halifax to voice their concerns “We just wanted to get our message out,” says Karen Crocker, chair of the Save our Bays Alliance. “There was lot of media there and hopefully now Nova Scotians are a little better educated what our concerns are and that we have valid concerns.”

Sherry Pictou spoke at the rally on behalf of the Bear River First Nations.

“We have a long tradition of building relationships with our neighbouring communities. I had the full support of my chief and council to go there and express our disappointment at the process – it really makes me question the whole process of community consultation. We have never received any answers to any of the questions we asked over a year ago.” Read more ...

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