B.C. fish farms extended to 2029

Ottawa is aiming for responsible, realistic and achievable transition’ away from the ocean farms

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged in the 2019 election that his government would phase out open ocean-pen farming.

OTTAWA The federal government is delaying the shutdown of open-net salmon farms off British Columbia's coast until 2029.

The government had promised to phase out the farms by next year, but Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier said Wednesday that she would allow aquaculture farms to renew their licences in what is a "responsible, realistic and achievable transition" away from the ocean farms.