Government of Canada Announces its First Ever Strategy to Restore and Rebuild Atlantic Salmon Populations and Their Habitats

This Strategy will guide the Department and our partners in working together to mitigate threats and ensure healthy ecosystems that can support Atlantic salmon. Since 2021, we have engaged with Canadians, stakeholders, partners, provincial governments and Indigenous organizations on the Strategy. The Department will continue to collaborate with these groups in implementing and reviewing the Strategy to help shape its evolution.

Canadians Will Pay $9 Billion to Implement Trudeau’s Ban of BC Salmon Farms

The report, commissioned by the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA), found that the ban announced in June and the current proposed draft transition plan would result in at least $9 billion in unnecessary costs to Canadian taxpayers to compensate for the sector’s closure, and to subsidize unproven closed containment technology companies.