Opposition fisheries critic Jim Bennett, MHA for St. Barbe, says it's mind boggling that the Newfoundland government continues to approve open net aquaculture when the rest of the country is headed in the opposite direction.

Bennett responded, in a news release today, to Friday's announcement from the British Columbia Liberal government that it would accept the intent of eight of the recent Cohen Commission's recommendations and refuse to issue any more open net fish farm licenses until 2020.

Bennett said, last week Nova Scotia's NDP government, for the very first time, rejected an open net fish farm license after the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans concluded that such fish farms posed a risk to wild salmon stocks.

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