A type of toxic algae is killing off farmed salmon in a section of Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
The Millar Channel and Ross Passage salmon farms, operated by the company Cermaq, have been affected by the harmful bloom over the past three weeks.
Members of the group Clayoquot Action have been monitoring the situation.
“They have got bio-waste trailers on site and they are sucking the dead fish out of the fish farm pens and moving them in through Tofino,” said Bonny Glambeck of Clayoquot Action.
The hardest hit site has lost about 10 percent of its fish to the toxic algae, Cermaq said.
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