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The Amarissa Joye, new $9-million vessel will transport farmed fish, and the owner isn’t apologizing
Port Hardy’s James Walkus is not apologetic about his big new $9-million transporter boat being involved in the fish farming industry. “I believe it needs to be,” said Walkus, 75, of fish farming. “Our wild fishery won’t support the supply and demand. Critics of fish farming say the process despoils the ocean beds below the pens where the farm fish are kept and that the problem of sea lice on wild fish is heightened by the pens’ proximity to those wild fish. Read the rest here 22:02
