The potential site of Boreal Salmon's open-flow land-based salmon farm in Chebogue. (Contributed Photo)
The Municipality of Yarmouth’s Planning Advisory Committee will continue their aquaculture learning sessions next week.
It’s to help the committee make a recommendation to council on whether or not to increase the types of aquaculture activities allowed under the municipal planning strategy and land-use by-law.
This after a request by Boreal Salmon to develop a land-based salmon farm in Chebogue Point.
The company made a presentation during last month’s sessions.
Recently, community members against the project made a request to be added to the presentations next Thursday, which was approved by the PAC.
Local fisherman Bernie Berry will speak, and says he’s pleased to be included.
“This gives us an opportunity to get our concerns brought to the forefront. We’ve had just one person present so far from our perspective. There will be at least five presenters giving different angles to what we believe is a contentious issue,” says Berry.
Other speakers that will join include an environmental lawyer, a concerned citizen who lives near a fish farm, and the director of a lobster company.
Berry says he wants as much information out there as possible.
“The key is education and giving the members of the PAC all the information that they need to make the proper decision.”
Berry and many others are concerned about impacts a land-based salmon farm could have on fish stocks and the environment.
