Fish farm rights are ocean management rights for B.C. First Nations | National Newswatch:
In British Columbia the debate about salmon farming is a heated one, and that debate is mainly held between two contenders: activists and those working in the industry. Meanwhile, the provincial and federal governments stand by and base their decisions regarding the industry on whomever seems to win the debate in the public’s eye, which is usually the activists.
As the world gathers in Montreal this month for the United Nations’ biodiversity conference, COP15, all eyes are on Indigenous-led conservation efforts to lead biodiversity recovery and protection. This is what some of our First Nations have been trying to do when it comes to wild salmon and ocean protection, while creating sustainable development and economic diversity for our coastal, often remote, communities through salmon farming.
This isn’t a debate about salmon farming, and whether it is good or bad – it’s about our sovereign right to make decisions for what happens in our territories, and salmon farming is a small drop in the bucket of the overall holistic approach we will take to managing our marine spaces. It is a part of the whole.
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