5-year shutdown plan for B.C. open-net salmon farms confirmed

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Feds to soon introduce 9-year licences for closed containment salmon farm operations

The federal government is delaying the shutdown of open-net salmon farms off British Columbia’s coast until 2029.

The government will soon introduce nine-year licences for closed containment salmon farm operations, either marine or land-based, the minister said during a news conference in Ottawa. Jonathan Wilkinson — North Vancouver MP and federal minister of energy and natural resources — and former federal fisheries minister Joyce Murray attended a news conference in Vancouver to make the same announcement.

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