Gold River Aquafarms (GRA), the developer of a land-based steelhead fish farm in Gold River, British Columbia, has received an aquaculture permit from Fisheries & Oceans Canada, giving it the go-ahead for a CAD 100 million (€69.5 million/$73.5 million) project on Vancouver Island.
The planning for the project began three years ago, with a lot of engineering and survey work already done and the application for regulatory approval filed in February last year…