They like to take the high road. I think they're using aquaculture as a jumping off point to control agriculture. The legislation of a relatively new protein producer is a good place to start, and go backwards from there. Still, Greenview is many steps ahead of provincial environmental regulations. There are costs, of course.
Any fish farming operation is a capital and labour intensive project, a green one more so.
None of the partners draws a salary. All but Page, a retired teacher, have day jobs. Today, Greenview pays its debts, and is already planning improvements. Although Greenview has never had to turn on the heating system in its custom facility, Lee wants to further reduce energy consumption. In the last few years, when thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped from their ocean pens, some of which spawned in B.C.'s wild waters, the fisheries and aquaculture specialist at the David Suzuki Foundation lambasted the industry as environmentally disastrous.