“Currently, over 90% of the planet’s wild fish stocks are being either fished to the legal maximum or overfished. It is clear the world needs aquaculture.”
A note from Jonathan Wilkinson
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
We’re all familiar with the old sayings: “Better safe than sorry” and “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Beginning in the 1980’s, policy makers began using these aphorisms to describe the underpinnings of something called the “precautionary principle”.
It’s a concept at the heart of many applications in science.
And it is something that will increasingly underpin how Canada will approach and manage aquaculture.
The precautionary principle was a cornerstone of a suite of measures I announced last month as Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans that will ensure Canada’s aquaculture industry is economically successful and environmentally sustainable…
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