Aquaculture platforms
Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.Conservative
- Maintain removal of salmon farms from the Discovery Islands.
- Assign responsibility for industry growth to another department, so DFO can focus on enforcement.
- Create a modern Aquaculture Act.
- Ensure the DFO & CFIA are adequately resourced.
- Strengthen salmon farm monitoring reqs.
• Maintain the decision to remove salmon farms from the Discovery Islands, but model the transition after the process that has been undertaken in the Broughton Archipelago to be more respectful of local First Nations, communities, and workers;
• Assign responsibility for the management and sustainable growth of the sector to a department other than DFO so that DFO can be solely focused on enforcement;
• Create a modern Aquaculture Act that can help restore public confidence;
• Ensure the roles of DFO and the CFIA are clearly defined in the National Aquatic Animal Health Program and adequately resourced;
• Strengthen monitoring requirements for salmon farms;
• Develop, in consultation with industry, First Nations, communities and other stakeholders, a comprehensive Salmon Aquaculture Management Strategy that addresses both the risks and opportunities of this sector; and
• Develop a tax incentive program for the development and adoption of technologies that reduce contact between wild and farmed salmon.
— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18
NDP
We will fully implement the recommendations of the Cohen Commission and work with the province of British Columbia and First Nations to support the transition to land-based closed-containment systems.
— Ready for Better, retrieved 2021-08-27
Green
- Work with Indigenous & provincial governments to phase out open net-pen finfish aquaculture in Pacific waters by 2025 & all Canadian waters by 2030.
- Support a just transition for impacted workers.
- Incentivise the move to land-based closed containment facilities.