Minister Wilkinson recently announced the adoption of an area-based management approach for aquaculture. That would include development of a greater understanding of the concerns of the local indigenous groups in the particular area: Are there factors in a particular area where aquaculture operates, in a fairly large geographic zone of British Columbia? We haven't determined the exact zonation of it. Are there factors in that particular zone that require greater monitoring of changes in the way the operations are licensed and controlled, changes in the way the importation of fish into those sites takes place or changes in the way the harvest takes place? What activities of the particular sites of that area that should be modified from an overall regional perspective into a more specific area-based perspective based on the biophysical factors in that particular area and based on the inputs or engagement with the indigenous groups of that area?
On November 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.