After losing two recent court cases, anti-salmon farming activists in BC have embarked on a concerted campaign to discredit aquaculture and fisheries scientists
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British Columbia’s anti-fish farming crowd, licking its wounds after two recent court rulings decimated their false claims that salmon farms are detrimental to wild stocks, is now wanting “facts to matter” when it comes to aquaculture.
But there is a big caveat.
The lobby only wants their ‘facts’ to matter and not the ones published in peer reviewed scientific studies, nor the ones established by government agencies like the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), nor the determinations made by the courts.
Unable to challenge the science, the activists have embarked on a concerted campaign to discredit the scientists, especially from DFO, to drive a wedge between them and Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray, to keep the Trudeau Liberals on their side.
One, Alexandra Morton, purporting to be an independent biologist, whose claims have been debunked on numerous occasions, has gone so far as to suggest she be the new boss of DFO by spreading institutional distrust of the current regime.
Another leader of this science-deficit cabal is Tony Allard, a Vancouver-based business man who serves as the chair of eco-activist groups like Wild Salmon Forever and Wild First.
Allard, in a recent op-ed entitled Who can Minister Murray trust? writes without evidence that DFO’s Aquaculture Management Directorate...
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