A Cooke Aquaculture salmon pen. (Save Our Bays!/Facebook)Already opponents are lining up to fight it, claiming more fish farms will harm the area, especially the lobster fishery. Dead fish are removed from a pen at the Coffin Island, Queens Co. fish farm, owned by Cooke Aquaculture. The company directly employs 205 people in Nova Scotia, where it has a feed mill and operates fish farms from the outskirts of Halifax around to Digby. From humble roots with 5,000 fish, Cooke Seafood has grown into a powerhouse operating in 10 countries with annual sales over $2 billion.

Source: CBC News March 29, 2019 10:08 UTC