Tell Premier John Horgan to Protect Namgis Territory. A North Island fish farm operation will be able to bring in more smolts despite concerns expressed in court by an Alert Bay area First Nation.
'Namgis First Nation failed to win an injunction that would have blocked the restocking of a Marine Harvest open-net fish farm in its traditional territories off Swanson Island.
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton put out a press release dated March 26, stating, "At 8 a.m. this morning Marine Harvest poured the first of 950,000 Atlantic farm salmon into the Swanson Island salmon farm in 'Namgis territory where members have stood in protest against this happening since August 24. On Friday, the nation lost its injunction to stop this restocking. Restocking will continue over the next week."
