“If we don’t come
together as a unified group … we’ll be telling our children that there
used to be salmon in the Fraser River,” said Musqueam Indian Band Chief
Wayne Sparrow.

Speaking at a media conference in North
Vancouver, the group says Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan needs to
make good on the 19th recommendation of the 2012 Cohen Commission’s
report on declining Fraser River salmon stocks. The
recommendation calls for the prohibition of 18 fish farms in the
Discovery Islands by Sept. 30, 2020, unless there is proof they pose
only a “minimum risk of serious harm to the heath of migrating Fraser
River salmon.”