{"id":1003924,"date":"2026-05-01T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/?p=1003924"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:36:20","slug":"may-2026-issue-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/?p=1003924","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 Issue Letter To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Announced in Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s statement on March 31<sup>st<\/sup>, the Federal Liberals have committed to \u201cInvest in Canada\u2019s wild Atlantic Salmon strategy, backed by more than $80 million, to stabilize and rebuild habitats.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bravo!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is at odds with this good news, however, is the determination of Tim Houston\u2019s government to continue allowing Cooke Aquaculture\u2019s expansion of Open Net Fish Farms throughout the province, and specifically, their operation off Saddle Island in Bayswater, Nova Scotia. The Provincial Conservatives\u2019 actions are counter productive to the Federal Liberals\u2019 generous and necessary step in the stewardship of our coastal waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, when you write to the Premier, the Minister of Aquaculture and Fisheries, and the Minister of the Environment, you are sure to receive a reply stating that these decisions are not of their doing but instead reside with the Aquaculture Review Board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May I remind Premier Houston and the MLAs cited above that they are elected to act in the best interests of the province and their constituents. They are also responsible for making the tough decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it perhaps time to examine the need for having the ARB at all? Eliminating it would even help to reduce the provincial deficit, as members of the ARB are remunerated and it seems that the only entity to benefit from their work is Cooke Aquaculture, based out of New Brunswick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda Carter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blandford, NS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced in Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s statement on March 31st, the Federal Liberals have committed to \u201cInvest in Canada\u2019s wild Atlantic Salmon strategy, backed by more than $80 million, to stabilize and rebuild habitats.\u201d Bravo!\u00a0 What is at odds with this good news, however, is the determination of Tim Houston\u2019s government to continue allowing Cooke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,160,44,188],"tags":[332,333,325],"class_list":["post-1003924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-233","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-may","category-wildlife","tag-bayswater","tag-fish-farm","tag-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003927,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003924\/revisions\/1003927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}