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Manly replaces Skelly as NDP fisheries critic
Jim Manly, a United Church minister from Vancouver Island, has been appointed as the New Democratic fisheries critic in Ottawa.
The MP from Cowichan, Mala-hat and the Islands, replaces Ray Skelly, who has been shifted to small business and mining. Skelly was appointed to the position after the 1984 election and was very active as the fisheries critic.
Manly has lived and worked in many B.C. communities including Kitimat, Kemano, Port Alice, Port MacNeil and Prince Rupert.
He was also a woodworker and International Woodworkers of America camp secretary at Woss, B.C.
First elected in 1980, Manly held onto his seat in 1984 despite a Conservative sweep across the country.
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farms is worrying the Ministry of Environment in Norway which wants to see fish farming barred from declared zones in the country's fjords," the magazine states. "The background for this initiative is the fear that diseases will be spread from farms to salmon rivers and the risk of genetic pollution."
The battle to protect wild salmon stocks here has been continuing and the DFO now says changes, along the lines of the Norwegians, are necessary.
Hunter said the present regulations call for the establishment one-half mile zones around salmon bearing streams and between farms. However the DFO will be is considering tripling this distance to five kilometres.
Research on the effect of fish farming on wild stocks is scanty and Hunter agrees that the actual safe distance is not known at this time.
"The one-half mile was pulled out of the air," he said."So was the five kilometres."
He said the DFO was on the verge of taking the recommendation to the province, where Hal-sey said the change would have a dramatic effect on fish farming. He said the province would consider such a request seriously but would not have to necessarily implement it.
Halsey also confirmed more than 700 sites have been zeroed in on by prospective fish farmers' The total number of farms approved has reached 144, with 80 having fish in the water. There are an estimated 60 applications to begin farming and more than 400 Section 10 applications, which freeze land for up to one year so fish farm plans can be considered.
Although Halsey said the government has rejected some applications, he couldn't put an exact figure on it.
Halsey would not comment on the moratorium call, but explained that his department was struggling to keep up the the demands being generated by the explosion in fish farms.
"We're really stretched thin," he said."There is lots of overtime ... and we don't have enough people."
It's a perception that's shared by Hunter, who explains the resources just aren't there to keep up.
"From everyone's perspective there are problems," he said. "We'll need lots more resources to police it than we have now."
At a time when federal and provincial governments are slashing budgets the monies are expected to come out of programs aimed at improving the wild stocks.
Despite Conservative party promises of funding for Phase 2 of the Salmonid Enhancement Program, there has been no funding. Millions of salmon eggs are being diverted from public hatcheries to fish farmers yearly.
Who owns the farms? Despite calls for some form of control over the foreign ownership of the farms, both levels of government do not know how many farms are controlled by foreign corporations. Most major farms are backed by foreign capital.
Many Norwegian companies, fleeing the stringent guidelines which ensure the farms are small and community controlled, are moving in with a vengeance to B.C. where no controls on farm size and ownership exist.
Farms in Norway are limited to an estimated 70 tons, but already in B.C. some farms can produce 300 tons and plans are on the board for farms which can produce 1,000 tons.
Halsey said the foreign ownership of the farms was not an issue for the provincial government.
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