Close up, B.C. salmon farms have 'horrific' impact on wild fish)

摘要

This opinion piece first appeared in the Vancouver Sun. Steve Strand now lives on Quadra Island. After 25 years as a marine biologist at UCLA, I decided to retire to British Columbia, where the combination of people with a similar life philosophy anda remarkably rich and interesting marine environment is very appealing. Since my specialty was, and is, the ecology of marine fishes, the controversies surrounding farmed salmon inevitably captured my attention. I quickly realized the issues were more complex than I had thought.