Call us crazy, but there used to be an understanding of the complexities involved in biological systems. This most recent announcement abolishing fish farms in a corridor of BC in the hopes of changing the outlook for native salmon populations is a single track approach to combating an issue not fully understood. Even scientists within Department of Fisheries and Oceans say they “don’t know the mechanisms that allow us to accurately forecast salmon”. While we advocate for stronger initiatives to farm local species and improve sustainable farming practices, we also know that any type of farming can change the landscape of the environment it’s in - look how the scale of cattle farming has changed huge parts of the planet. However, and this is the big one, to focus on aquaculture as the driver of decreasing salmon populations is simply narrow-visioned. Climate change, fishing pressure, habitat destruction, the list goes on. Perhaps if regulators took as hard a line on changing some of these things as they do about the “evil” that is fish farming, maybe the planet would actually survive long enough to improve the dynamics of aquaculture. Just fish for thought.