05-04-2018 23:06 via vancouversun.com

B.C. chefs ask gov't to stop open-net salmon farming

A group of more than 50 B.C. chefs is telling the provincial government to stop salmon-farming leases in a bid to protect wild salmon.
The chefs, along with environmental crusader David Suzuki, held a news conference in Vancouver on Thursday to urge B.C. to terminate 20, open net-pen, salmon-farm tenures coming up for renewal in June in the Broughton Archipelago, a wild-salmon migratory route. 
The group has written a letter outlining its concerns to Doug Donaldson, the B.C. minister of for
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