In short, the decision to remove salmon farms from BC waters is a short-sighted decision based on public pressure instead of science and data that will cause the collapse of wild salmon populations and the extreme commodification of Pacific salmon as a food. (3/3)

In addition, the is much less pushback on traditional land-based farms that have equal or higher amounts of ecological impact because of the legacy comfort that agriculture enjoys. People are only up in arms about salmon farms because they're the new kids on the block, not because they're worse