Salmon farm protester yells at B.C. premier to protect wild stocks
VICTORIA — A heckler interrupted Premier John Horgan’s news conference on protecting British Columbia’s wild salmon by shouting the province is allowing the aquaculture industry to continue operating while fish stocks are struggling to survive.
“You sold us out,” she yelled Friday. “Our salmon are dying.”
“If that’s your view you’re welcome to put your name on a ballot any time soon,” Horgan responded.
The woman, who identified herself as Tsastilqualus, said she is from the Alert Bay area off northern Vancouver Island but has been living in a tent on Swanson Island near several commercial salmon farms.