PLEASE SIGN PETITION: URGENT: NO Open-Pen Fish Farms in NOVA SCOTIA

HELP US STOP OPEN-PEN FISH FARMING IN NOVA SCOTIA

~ WE TRULY VALUE YOUR SUPPORT ~
The Province of Nova Scotia has invited multinational companies to scope out and develop expansive open net pen salmon farming operations (Industrial Feedlots) in Coastal Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. Do you want this for our pristine waters or for our already struggling Wild Atlantic Salmon? If not PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION.

THANK YOU!!!

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Petition to the Government of Canada

E-petition initiated by Laurie Scott from Rose Bay, Nova Scotia

Whereas:

• The Province of Nova Scotia has invited multinational companies to scope out and develop expansive open net pen salmon farming operations (Industrial Feedlots) in Coastal Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy;
• This expansion will result in environmental degradation as seen in similar aquaculture operations in British Columbia, Newfoundland, Norway, Vietnam and elsewhere in the world;
• It will pose risks to native fish stocks, pollute coastal ecosystems, imperil ‘at risk’ wild Atlantic salmon and threaten established fisheries and tourism operations.
• Open pen fish farming will not create significant employment and will undermine existing lobster and other coastal fisheries;
• These industries employ thousands of Nova Scotians and are valued at over $1 billion annually;
• Their income and success stays in our province and is not funneled out of the country by foreign owned companies; and
• Concerns include that the health of protected wild salmon will be imperiled by farmed salmon, the environmental degradation of the benthic environment from antibiotics, pesticides and feces, increased hazard to navigation and risk of marine entanglement, damage to our Nova Scotia brand, and loss of revenue in housing tax base with industrialization of pristine coastline.

We, the undersigned, residents of Nova Scotia and Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:

1. Uphold Bill C-68 and the ¨species at risk¨ legislation, and protect our oceans;

2. Ban expansion of open net fin fish aquaculture in our oceans and work to phase out any existing open net operations currently in place; and

3. Invest in land based, closed containment fin fish aquaculture.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Letter from Laurie~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Friends,

We have reached the Minimum Signatures, thank you BUT we need to send a CLEAR Message to our Local Federal Fisheries Minister. She has a LEGAL PRECEDENT and the MANDATE under the Federal Fisheries ACT to Stop 🛑 the Multi Nationals from destroying our Ocean. Do not Believe the Deflection. The Licensing was Changed to Pave the Way for the Corporate March.

Thank you,

Laurie Scott