Editor:

I read with interest the picturesque presentation of the BC salmon farming industry’s perspective of itself delivered to my mailbox recently.

Words with “farm” as their root appear 45 times. These Atlantic salmon are not on farms but in feedlots. “Sustainable” words appear four times. It is not a sustainable industry, as it relies upon a huge environmental degradation subsidy.

To be sustainable, Atlantic salmon feedlots must be in a closed system on land. The industry must clean up its own waste and keep the water pure enough for the fish to live.

Only then will there be no interference with the wild salmon stocks and wild marine life generally. The continual escape of Atlantic salmon into Pacific salmon habitat and the release of sea lice and feed lot wastes into the marine environment must stop.

James Graham

Gibsons