It seems while there's still debates going on in regards to open-pen fish farming in Canada, in Vancouver locals are fairly decided on it.
More than 85 per cent of people in Vancouver who responded to the V.I.A. poll about open-pen salmon farms in B.C. are against them.
The practice is slowly being phased out by the federal government, and it was promised they would be closed by 2025, but pressure from some groups has meant an extension to 2029, for now.
Open-pen fish farms are essentially fenced in areas in the ocean where salmon are raised. Research has connected them to environmental damage including penned fish passing diseases on to local wild salmon populations.
Activists have been lobbying for the end of open-pen fish farms for years, including actor Willilam Shatner, who is known to fish on B.C.'s coast. Recently he posted a video encouraging people to speak out about "open-net pen salmon farms."
In a V.I.A. poll more than 80 per cent of readers were against the practice. There was a three per cent difference between general readers (anyone on the internet can participate in the poll) and ones in Vancouve; voters in Vancouver were slightly more against the pens.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 1537 readers and asked the question: How do you feel about open-pen salmon farming in B.C.?
The poll ran from 6/23/2024 to 7/14/2024. Of the 1537 votes, we can determine that 601 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.5%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
With files from the Canadian Press
