Opinion: We need science-advice reform at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
It took months of meetings, written requests and public pressure to receive an official response from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to a 1.5-year-long wait for a request related to a widely condemned DFO report. This report found, contrary to mountains of peer-reviewed evidence, that infestations of sea lice on open-net salmon farms do not influence numbers of lice on wild salmon. Our appeal was simple: For the report’s authors to share the data used to reach their conclusion, to enable us to reproduce the analysis—a fundamental principle of modern science. The eventual response? A data sheet with much of the key data removed. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 15:30
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