by webmaster | Mar 26, 2013 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Controversial new feedlot starts up Plover Point stocks Atlantic salmon 26 March 2013 — Tofino BC — Mainstream Canada, a subsidiary of Norwegian-owned Cermaq, has begun farming Atlantic salmon at its controversial new feedlot in Clayoquot Sound. The Plover Point open...
by webmaster | Oct 19, 2012 | Defend Wild Salmon
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the BC Liberals have approved a new salmon farm in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Norwegian-owned Mainstream Canada plans to site the 55-hectare open net-cage feedlot at Plover Point along the shore of Meares Island...
by webmaster | Aug 23, 2012 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Post edited August 27, 2012. There was a second outbreak of the IHN virus in July at Mainstream Canada’s Millar Channel salmon feedlot here in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The salmon farming industry claims that they are very concerned about...