The Tyee – Acting on the wishes of seven First Nations in the Discovery Islands DFO Minister Bernadette Jordan has not renewed fish farm licenses in the Discovery Islands but ordered the phase out of all 19 Atlantic salmon feedlots owned by Norwegian-based companies. That means juvenile salmon will not have run through a gauntlet of fish farms and their parasites along one of the province’s largest wild salmon migration routes.
DFO support of fish farms vs support for wild salmon
December 17, 2020Return to Previous Page
or
Continue Reading
Protecting beneficiaries ahead of the Robinson-Huron Treaty annuities payments
Northern Ontario physician encouraged by seeing more Indigenous medical professionals
Memorial walk planned for 10th anniversary of Tina Fontaine’s death in August
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation youth follow ancestral waterways in educational canoe trip