Contrary to reports that no federal assessment is necessary before growing genetically modified Atlantic salmon at Rollo Bay, PEI, the government has confirmed that the company AquaBounty does not yet have federal approval to commercially produce GM fish at its new Rollo Bay facility. On June 19, the PEI government approved the company’s request to begin construction of … Read more
The Ecology Action Centre (EAC) and Living Oceans Society (LOS) spoke out against what they say is a the cloud of secrecy obscuring federal government approvals of genetically modified (GM) organisms in Canada – including what may be the world’s first GM food animal to hit supermarket shelves: AquAdvantage™ salmon. In December of 2013, EAC … Read more
The Ecology Action Centre said efforts to protect the endangered porbeagle shark, often called Canada’s shark, have failed for the third year running at the annual fisheries management meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. The centre added that at the close of this year’s meeting in Morocco, Canada again found … Read more
In just three days, 14, 000 people have sent letters to National Revenue Minister, and Acting Fisheries and Oceans Minister, Gail Shea (Egmont, P.E.I.), expressing their outrage that Canada continues to block an international proposal to stop fishing the endangered porbeagle shark. For the last two years, Canada has been the only country of 48 … Read more
The Ecology Action Centre announced that groups of lobster fishermen and concerned citizens gathered on the steps of the Nova Scotia Legislature to protest the rapid expansion of industrial-scale salmon farms. Lobster fishermen from St. Mary’s Bay, NS, who will no longer be able to fish in the 209 acre in-shore waters that Cooke Aquaculture … Read more
