A Mammal Massacre in Clayoquot Sound

by Clayoquot Action
 
21 March 2016

 

Tofino - Norwegian-owned Cermaq Canada conducted a marine mammal massacre in Clayoquot Sound last December.

 

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) recently released their Authorized Marine Mammal Control Activities data, showing that between October and December 2015, fifteen California Sea Lions were shot by Cermaq at their Binns Island salmon farm.

 

The wildlife was threatening farmed fish in Cermaq’s open-net pen facility.

 

Binns Island is located in Herbert Arm, close to the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations village of Ahousat, in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island BC. The salmon farm in Herbert Arm is on the migration route of wild salmon from the Moyeha River, which has been protected in BC’s oldest provincial park since 1910.