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Was DFO's 'Minimal Risk' assessment a cover-up?
6 minutes Posted May 17, 2022 at 10:11 pm.
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At the May 12 session of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, Stan Proboszcz, senior scientist at the Watershed Watch Salmon Society suggested that DFO covered-up some of its own research when it concluded fish farms pose ‘minimal risk’ to wild salmon. They reduced the number of science risk assessments from 10 to 9 because the evidence indicated sea lice harm wild sockeye.
This is the audio recording of his presentation to the committee