ANTI-AQUACULTURE campaigners are being challenged to demonstrate accountability and to apologise for defamatory and malicious statements designed to frighten people away from eating farmed product.
British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association's executive director, Mary Ellen Walling, last month made the call on behalf of her members following the recent BC Supreme Court ruling that self-styled anti-cage farming activist Don Staniford intentionally used inflammatory words and withheld facts in an effort to damage the reputation of BC's salmon farmers.
In welcoming the decision by Madam Justice Gerow, the producers' leader called for such activists to be held up to scrutiny in future, in the same way that, in today's regulatory environment, the actions of salmon farmers are measured, publicly reported and closely scrutinised.
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