WHY HABITAT COMPENSATION UNDER THE FISHERIES ACTFAILS - THE CASE OF SANDY POND

摘要

Compensation for aquatic habitat that is destroyed by industrial development under permit from the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has been criticized on a number of points by fisheries scientists and conservationists, including ourselves (Gibson, 2012; Hutchings and Post 2013; Jacobs 2015). Not least of these is the fundamental question as to how any compensation can be offered that is equivalent to the destruction of an entire ecosystem, such as a natural lake, particularly when it may contain genetically unique populations.