9 - Friday, March 22, 1985 - North Shure News

WEST VAN. FISH FARM

Third

A VANCOUVER man
who dreams of sup-

plying the North Shore
with tens of thousands
of pounds

of fresh

DAVID WHIFFEN has
his hands full of the ap-
provals he needs for a
proposed commercial fish
farm in Var.couver. He
atso has his basids full in
attempting to convince
West Vancouver
municipal council that he
should be allowed to go
ahead with the proposal.

salmon isn’t giving up &
his fight to win permis-
sion to use waterfront &

land in West Van-
couver. : :
* David Whiffen, who has
-had his application for use
of the waters off Pasco
Road rejected twice by
municipal council, is trying
‘again with a proposal to
. Operate a new fish farm pro-
cess on land adjacent to
Sunset Marina, further north
of the Pasco Road site.

“I've answered all their
(council’s) concerns,’’ says
- Whiffen, adding that he
feels aldermen would have a
difficult time rejecting k's
latest application. .

Whiffen was originally
denied permission to use
waterfront land on Pasco
Road because council was
told that he did not have the
necessary approvals for gov-
ernment bodies and because
of complaints from residents
of that area that the fish
farm operation would in-
terfere with their lifestyles.

Whiffen has the approvals
-he needs: — most of which
were in hand when his origi-
nal application was denied
-- and says with the change
of location he no longer has
to worry about
nearby residents.

What’s driving Whiffen to
keep pushing for approval
are his ideas on the potential
for a commercial fish farm-
ing operation that takes ad-
vantage of natural condi-
tions while allowing the op-
erator contro! over the fish.

His proposal is to raise the
raise salmon in a_ large

a

offending §

time lucky,

year pilot project using a
single large pen to test his
theories.

“Who would think there
could be controversy over
someone who is trying to put

food on plates?*' Whiffin
said this week after council
had received his proposal
and referred it to municipal
staff for comment.

Whiffen said Sunset
Marina operators have
agreed to lease him the nec-
essary foreshore and that
because of the M-I zoning,

essential he says in order to
take advantage of the best
possible natural conditions
and to keep the process close
enough to the market area.
Whiffin is proposing a one

submerged pen that would
allow salmon to feed at the
surface and then return to
the colder water of the dep-
ths. Location along Howe
Sound in West Vancouver is

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he sees no conflict between
the existing use of the land
and his proposal.

“This is an important
resource to B.C.,"’ says
Whiffen. ‘If 1 can make this
work successfully, it will
open. up a whole new in-
dustry for British Colum-
bia.”’

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