Mowi Canada West has applied to the Federal Court of Canada in Vancouver for a judicial review of the decisions made by Canadian Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan to phase out salmon farming in British Columbia's Discovery Islands. Mowi is asking the courts to find the decisions unreasonable and to set them aside.
"These decisions, made without consultation of the industry, one week before Christmas, prohibit the issuance of new or replacement aquaculture licenses for aquaculture sites and prohibit any fish being transferred into aquaculture sites within the Discovery Islands area," Mowi said in a statement.
