Investor Presentaiton
B.C's Kobayashi Maru Moment
No-Win scenario defined by
Net pen industry in retraction
Wild fishery diminished /closed
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Sport fishery closed
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Job and industry loses appear inevitable with potential to avalanche towards 2025
BC
Canada closed to business
Change the playing field - Change the rules
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Immediate time frame (0-1 year)
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Promote cultured seaweed FN and community farming - fast job creation
Promote wild fishery, farmed salmon and land-base salmon production volumes to be integrated
into the processing and transportation sector to sustain ancillary jobs
Utilize VIU and UBC to retrain and apprentice Discovery Island workforce
Short time frame (0-3 year)
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Catalyze land-base salmon aquaculture
Incent small scale coupled salmon and aquaponic faculties for communities
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Caveat:- committed and technically astute workforce essential
Incent the majors to invest in large scale land-based as net-pen infrastructure ages out
Long time frame (present and onward)
invest in wild salmon rehabilitation to rebuild wild fisheries
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