I am greatly opposed to the plan to put caged-salmon farms in St. Mary’s Bay for a variety of reasons:
They are unnatural.
They poison water, earth and air with their chemicals, and will increase ocean pollution, which is already at a danger point globally.
Our sea fish/lobster, scallops, etc. are already dwindling in stock. Caged-salmon farms will reduce them more, and greatly increase local unemployment.
Fish farms in other places (e.g., British Columbia) have a bad reputation. Down here, other aquaculture site operators have repeatedly stated, “None of our salmon have escaped,” “that broken cage debris on your beaches is not ours.” But we who live here every day know their salmon did escape when their cages broke up and washed up. They just quietly trucked more down and replaced them.
Louise Chisholm, Tiverton
