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A federal court judge has ruled Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan acted against scientific advice and ignored her own commitments when she announced last December that all 19 fish farms in the Discovery Islands region would be phased out by June 2022.
SAYWARD The task employees of a North Island fish hatchery have been dreading has arrived, and staff have now begun the process of culling nearly one million salmon they have been raising. Mowi Canada says the killing is necessary because of a decision that Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan made in December – to remove fish farm operations from B.C. s Discovery Islands region. Mowi estimates 925,000 juvenile salmon, which are now about a year-and-a-half old, will be destroyed by Thursday. The operation is being overseen by head veterinarian Terra MacDonald. These fish are healthy, they have good welfare, they’re not carrying a disease and so to see them have to be euthanized is really difficult, MacDonald said. I’m not generally in the business of killing healthy fish.