Pacific Salmon Foundation Study Fuels Fresh Alarm With Shaky Science - Sea West News
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A new Pacific Salmon Foundation study shows how disputed findings can be turned into alarming headlines, fuelling the “scientific uncertainty” activists need to kill British Columbia’s ocean salmon farming sector. AnalysisBy Fabian DawsonSeaWestNewsThere is a simple way to make almost any industry look dangerous. Start with something that might pose a risk, present it as evidence of a wider threat, emphasize what scientists still don’t know, then argue that because nobody can prove there is zero risk, government must act before it is too late. That approach became deeply embedded in the Trudeau government’s handling of the B. C. salmon farming file because it also worked politically. It allowed the former government to harvest activist votes while using “scientific uncertainty” to support policy decisions that went well beyond what its own federal science reviews supported. The result was the Trudeau-era decision to end conventional ocean salmon farming in B. C. by 2029, despite federal assessments that had concluded ocean salmon farms posed no more than minimal risk to wild stocks.
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