Canada Begins the Organic Salmon Debate

"An association representing B.C.’s organic agri-food industry may discuss whether some farmed finfish and shellfish can be certified during a meeting this month.

Lee McFadyen, chair of the Certified Organic Association of B.C.’s standards review sub-committee on aquaculture, said a set of draft standards – written by the Pacific Organic Seafood Association – is currently before the association’s board of directors.
Those standards, she added, may be discussed at a mid-September meeting.

“I think anybody who wants to take an organic approach to food production needs to have a standard the public can recognize and that growers can follow,” said McFadyen, herself a self-described organic grower since 1962."

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