Feds miss self-imposed deadline for salmon farm transition plan, look like they’re ‘making it up as they go along,’ say industry stakeholders

Indigenous and industry stakeholders say they are still waiting to see the 'guts' of the government's plan to transition to close-containment salmon farms, which it had committed to deliver by July 31.

On June 19, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced that existing open-net salmon farms in British Columbia will have five years to transition to land-based, closed-containment systems. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

August 1, 2024

The federal government has missed its own July 31 deadline to provide a draft transition plan to British Columbia’s salmon farmers, after it announced last month that those farms would be required to move to entirely land-based operations in the next five years.

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