The Guardian. No one has spent a half hour on a BC beach without being aware of eelgrass. Consequently, this story from Spain may be highly relevant for BC’s marine aquaculture industry. Yes, there’s good reason to be gun-shy. The destructive costs in disease and sea lice for BC’s wild salmon is well documented. So are the costs of pollution from fish farms – small wonder they are hidden away in pristine inlets. But the reality is that increased food production is needed to sustain constantly increasing global populations. As residents on BC’s coast and of one of its coastal cities, we need to ask ourselves whether we are accepting of this new possibility of food production on our shorelines. Somewhere has to produce the food to keep human populations growing. Is it time for us to step forward in this role? [ARTICLE LINK]