There's a distinct problem in farm site employment. Marine Harvest Canada has made significant efforts in the last couple of years to boost the number of local workers that manage their farm sites in the Broughton Archipelago, the Quatsino site, and elsewhere.
However, we have companies like Mainstream Canada with a number of farm sites that offer little in the way of local employment, mainly due to the fact that commute workers operate the sites and the fish harvested from those sites are delivered to Campbell River instead of our region for processing. The benefits are somewhat muted from their activity in our communities. However, those benefits do accrue to central Vancouver Island instead.
There is a belief by my board that we do need to boost the employment from the existing farm sites and support any new technologies that will increase employment in the first nations and the communities. We're only really scratching the surface at this time.