| Lack of fairness prompts Federal Court to set aside B.C. fish farm phaseout | |
| By Amy Smart |
Source: globalnews |
4/27/2022 |
|
|
Credit: Jonathan Hayward. JOH |
A Federal Court judge has set aside a Department of Fisheries order that would have phased out fish farming in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands.
Federal Court Judge Elizabeth Heneghan says in a decision issued April 22 that the order made in late 2020 by then-fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan breached the right to procedural fairness owed to the 19 fish farms that were expected to shut down by the end of June. |
|
|
Fish farm operators Mowi Canada West, Cermaq Canada and Grieg Seafood applied for a judicial review of the order that prevented them from restocking their farms, arguing it lacked reasons and didn’t “show an appreciation of the facts.” |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|