Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior to make first Canadian stop at Chesterman Beach near Tofino
Andrew Bailey / Westerly News, October 6, 2013 - Reprint in Times Colonist
...Grant Warkentin, a communications officer with Mainstream Canada, a fish farming company that operates 27 farm sites around Vancouver Island (including 17 near Tofino) believes Greenpeace needs to take another look at the fish farming industry.
"A lot of the information that they base their comments on is out of date and in a lot of cases they fail to acknowledge all of the positive changes and improvements that have been made in salmon farming over the last decade," he said.
"It is frustrating that environmental groups continue on these campaigns based on old outdated information.
"The last time I saw what Greenpeace was writing about salmon farming it was based on information that was at least a decade out of date," Warkentin said.
He said information about the aquaculture-fish farming-industry is reported publicly through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
"There's so much information out there about aquaculture that I'm pretty confident saying that were more transparent than most other protein producers out there," he said.
"Environmental groups are going to say what they're going to say. I'm more concerned about what the average person out there thinks and making sure they have the information to see and make up their own mind."
