Probe prompts some farmland owners to improve fish habitat (with video)

Biologist Mike Pearson at Bertrand Creek in Aldergrove where JRT Nurseries completed extensive remedial work after a Vancouver Sun series exposed alteration of fish habitat.

Probe prompts some farmland owners to improve fish habitat (with video)

Vancouver Sun’s Minding The Farm series leads to remedial work on fish streams impacted by Fraser Valley farming

By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun December 29, 2014

Two farmland owners in the Fraser Valley have conducted wide-ranging remediation work — and a third is under a provincial order to do so — following a lengthy Vancouver Sun investigation into the environmental impact of farming on fish streams.

The Sun’s Minding The Farm series, published in June, probed several cases in which farmers had altered important fish habitat, and it also exposed the B.C. government’s lax laws on farm manure runoff into fish streams compared with neighbouring Washington state.

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