FISH FARM CULLS COST PUBLIC $138M
/Source: The Chronicle Herald
Over two decades, at least $138 million of taxpayer money has compensated Canadian fish farms for sick, culled stocks. All the culls were in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Several East Coast environmental groups joined forces recently to count up the total cost o f all known payouts. The pattern in the numbers shows that disease is a built-in part of the aquaculture industry and has shown little improvement, said Raymond Plourde of the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax. (read more)
