Canada releases draft transition plan phasing out salmon net-pens in British Columbia

The Canadian government has released its draft salmon aquaculture transition plan to remove net pen farming from the province of British Columbia after delaying the process again in late August. The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) first kicked off the B.C. salmon net-pen transition plan in August 2022 with the launch in engagement efforts to start planning a transition away from in-water aquaculture. That plan was itself started two years after the DFO suddenly announced it…