[BCFSN] Fwd: Feedback on Minister of Agriculture's Advisory Council on Finfish Aquaculture

[Dawn Morrison]

Hi All,
Please see important forwarded message below to better understand how you
can work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to get the fish farms out of
our ocean and prevent any further harm to our Wild Salmon.

Share this far and wide within your networks.

Dawn

Daw
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From: "Eddie Gardner" <singingbear at telus.net>
Date: Apr 8, 2018 9:59 PM
Subject: Feedback on Minister of Agriculture's Advisory Council on Finfish
Aquaculture
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Hi all,
We final have a report from the Minister of Agriculture’s Advisory Council
on Fin Aquaculture:
The B.C. government will keep a moratorium on new salmon farm tenures in
place while it gets feedback from the public and First Nations on
recommendations made by the Minister of Agriculture's Advisory Council on
Finfish Aquaculture.
The advisory council was set up in 2016 to advise the provincial government
on salmon farming, the goal being to determine if the industry is socially
and ecologically sustainable and to address the potential threat they pose
to wild salmon stocks.
Agriculture Minister Lana Popham briefly addressed the report
<https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/agriculture-and-seafood/fisheries-and-aquaculture/minister-or-agriculture-s-advisory-council-on-finfish-aquaculture/maacfa-2017-docs/minister_of_agricultures_advisory_council_on_finfish_aquaculture_final_report_and_appendices.pdf>
in
a Thursday April 5 press conference.  She had little to say about the
recommendations made by the advisory council, and said her government will
be seeking feedback from the public on the report.
First Nations and their allies are in full support of the following
recommendation:
*“Acknowledge and incorporate First Nations’ rights, title and stewardship
responsibilities in all aspects of fish farm governance, including
tenuring, licensing, management and monitoring in a manner consistent with
the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).”*
Please circulate this to your networks and send in your support for this
recommendation in particular as the NDP must keep its commitments to
UNDRIP, and to make meaningful progress on Reconciliation with Indigenous
people.  The Musgamagw, Namgis and Mamalilikulla people have a right to
properly steward their resources, water and lands and have never given
their free, prior and informed consent to have open net pen fish farms in
their territory.  They have been making every effort to gain the
collaboration of the NDP government not to renew fish farm tenures in their
territorial waters, and your support would greatly assist the NDP
government to make this decision.  This would not interfere with other
areas where Marine Harvest and Cermaq have agreements with other First
Nations.
You can send your message to: lana.popham.mla at leg.bc.ca, by simply copying
and pasting the following:

*We fully support the Minister of Agriculture’s Advisory Council on Finfish
Aquaculture recommendations, in particular the following recommendation:*
*“Acknowledge and incorporate First Nations’ rights, title and stewardship
responsibilities in all aspects of fish farm governance, including
tenuring, licensing, management and monitoring in a manner consistent with
the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).”*
*We join thousands of British Columbians from all backgrounds who support
your governments commitments to UNDRIP and to reconciliation with
Indigenous people.*

Your time and attention to this would be greatly appreciated given the fish
farm tenures are up for renewal this coming June 2018.


Sincerely yours,

Eddie Gardner
President, Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance
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