A new salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island was dismantled and hauled away this week following after being ‘occupied’ by few members of Ahousaht First Nations and local supporters from Tofino.
“This is the very first salmon farm that’s pulled out of B.C. because of protesters,” said Alexandra Morton, an independent salmon research scientist who has documented the devastating impacts of salmon farms on wild salmon and other marine species. Morton was part of the two-week occupation.
Lennie John, an Ahousaht man, was the first to tie his boat to the floating fish pens in long narrow channel (Read more…)