Mel Arnold at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On April 26th, 2021. See this statement in context.

April 26th, 2021 / 3:50 p.m.

Conservative

Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC

Okay. Thank you.

In March 2020, the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat released its report on nine populations that COSEWIC has designated as threatened or endangered. The CSAS report stated that “all sources of harm should be reduced to the maximum extent possible” in order to provide the best chance of survival of threatened or endangered wild salmon stocks.

In your view, are viruses from fish farms, such as PRV, a source of harm that should be reduced to the maximum extent possible?

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