Along similar lines:
British Columbia, often aided and abetted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (aka DFO), has promoted intensive aquaculture practices which can be exceedingly harmful to the environment, to humans and to fish (even more so than intensive agriculture practices involving mammals and birds are). This no more evident than in the sorry history of BC's salmon farms.
Industry business models and practices have contributed materially to substantial degradation of coastal habitat in BC, both land and sea, and have produced considerable if not irreparable harm to the farmed species and to other species inhabiting that environment. The latter concerns are poignantly raised by Alexandra Morton in her memoir on killer whales — Listening to Whales : What the Orcas Have Taught Us (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. ISBN 0-345-43794-2).
