Cooke Aqua's former Shelburne Harbour salmon farm site still a dead zone say scientists
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Chronicle Herald] by Brian Medel - July 21, 2014
Two years after an aquaculture company’s salmon pen location in Shelburne Harbour was abandoned, part of the harbour bottom is still dead, an independent study has revealed.
Inka Milewski, a marine biologist who currently serves as the science adviser for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, has been studying selected areas of the Shelburne harbour bottom since 2011.
She studied a lease site off Sandy Point where a salmon cage had held fish. The lease site was surrendered back to the province in 2011, Milewski said...
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