Grieg Holds Raucous Public Information Meeting on Salmon Project for Placentia Bay
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC News] by Mark Quinn - March 14, 2018
A proposal to farm more than seven million salmon in Placentia Bay every year received both praise and condemnation Tuesday night at a sometimes raucous meeting of more than 250 people in Marystown.
Aquaculture company Grieg NL organized the public meeting as part of the environmental impact statement (EIS) it has been ordered to prepare as it seeks approval for its proposal to build a land-based hatchery and a string of sea cages.
If successful, Grieg NL plans to build a hatchery on the Burin Peninsula that will produce immature salmon to be grown to market size at 11 sea-cage sites around Placentia Bay.
Tuesday's meeting — which drew aquaculture experts from Norway, Iceland and the U.S. to Marystown — was also simulcast at sites in St. John's, Gander and Corner Brook.
Grieg has been trying to get the project off the ground for at least three years....
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