To say that Tuesday, 1 November was a bad day for Glenn Cooke and two other key Cooke Aquaculture officials would probably be a definite understatement.
Cooke, the CEO of Cooke Aquaculture; Mike Szemerda, the Vice President of Cooke Aquaculture, and Randal Griffin, Regional Production Manager of Kelly Cove Salmon were each charged, by Environment Canada (EC), with 11 counts for allegedly violating Section 36 (3) of the Fisheries Act. This section of the Act prohibits the deposit of a substance that is harmful to fish into fish-bearing waters.
Robert Robichaud is the Regional Operations Manager for the Environmental Enforcement Division of Environment Canada in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Robichaud said, “The charges stem from a two-year investigation that EC opened on 22 December 2009 and a second investigation that started in February 2010.
“These investigations were conducted into the cause of dead and dying lobsters and the alleged use of a cypermethrin-based pesticide into the waters adjacent to aquaculture sites near Grand Mannan Island and Deer Island, New Brunswick.”
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