Opinion: DFO’s flawed science leaves wild salmon vulnerable to disease

The ecological, cultural, and economic importance of British Columbia’s wild salmon underscores the need for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the federal department responsible for their health, to employ rigorous science in assessing potential disease risks associated with Atlantic salmon farming. But with DFO’s history of putting the salmon farming industry's interests first and suppressing its own science, it’s perhaps not surprising that the internal process used to asses