{"id":81,"date":"2026-04-06T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:57:21","slug":"court-upholds-fish-farm-phase-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/court-upholds-fish-farm-phase-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Fish Farm Phase-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January 2026, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the federal government\u2019s decision to phase out open-net salmon farms in the Discovery Islands. The court dismissed an appeal by <a href=\"https:\/\/mowi.com\/\">Mowi<\/a>, the world\u2019s number-one supplier of farmed Atlantic salmon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling reinforces the government\u2019s authority to act cautiously when ecological risks are uncertain \u2013 a decision that will have major benefits for wild salmon, Indigenous communities, and the future of aquaculture in British Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The court\u2019s decision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The case, Mowi Canada West Inc v Canada (Fisheries and Oceans), challenged the federal government\u2019s 2020 decision not to renew salmon farm licences in the Discovery Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2020, aquaculture companies \u2013 led by <a href=\"https:\/\/mowi.com\/\">Mowi<\/a> \u2013 launched multiple appeals, winning some early procedural rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court has now ruled the fisheries minister has authority under the Fisheries Act to decline renewals and apply the precautionary principle, allowing protective action where activities could cause ecological harm. This marks a huge win for wild salmon and strengthens the legal footing for Canada\u2019s planned 2029 phase-out of marine open-net salmon farming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the federal government\u2019s decision to phase out open-net salmon farms in the Discovery Islands. The court dismissed an appeal by Mowi, the world\u2019s number-one supplier of farmed Atlantic salmon. The ruling reinforces the government\u2019s authority to act cautiously when ecological risks are uncertain \u2013 a decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl233.ashaik3.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}