An agenda for law reform : Need to publicly disclose diseases on BC fish farms

Concerns have included the potential for sea lice to escape farms and infest wild fish, the possibility that exotic Atlantic salmon might escape and impact the environment, the deposition of large amounts of fecal matter below farms, potential impacts from the use of antibiotics on the farms, and the excessive use of wild fish in feed. [...] See Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of the Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River, The Uncertain Future of the Fraser River Sockeye: Volume 2 – Causes of the Decline. [...] Accessed April 17, 2014; Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of the Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River, The Uncertain Future of the Fraser River Sockeye: Volume 2 – Causes of the Decline. [...] Accessed April 18, 2014; 36 Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of the Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River, The Uncertain Future of the Fraser River Sockeye: Volume 2 – Causes of the Decline. [...] So, ‚…the scope of the duty [to consult] is proportionate to a preliminary assessment of the strength of the case supporting the existence of the right or title, and to the seriousness of the potentially adverse effect upon the right or title claimed.‛61 Since many BC First Nations have an Aboriginal right to harvest salmon and there is a strong argument that salmon farming can significantly impac