Aquaculture, homeless, aging habits
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Fish findings
A long-awaited report on the fate of aquaculture in B.C. — whether it should remain ocean-based or shift to enclosed facilities — will come down tomorrow (Wednesday). The sustainable aquaculture committee, a primarily NDP body created by Premier Gordon Campbell, has prepared the report. Rick Routledge, an SFU fish population statistician, and Larry Albright, an SFU professor emeritus of marine microbiology and an enclosed fresh water fish farmer, have been following this issue for years. Routledge is prepared to comment on the committee’s recommendations. Albright can talk about fresh water fish farming. John Reynolds, SFU's Tom Buell B.C. Leadership chair in salmon conservation and management, is available to comment.
Rick Routledge, 604.291.4478, richard_routledge@sfu.ca
Larry Albright, 604.626.6747 (cell), albright@sfu.ca
John Reynolds, 604.291.5636/3989/5610, reynolds@sfu.ca, slv@sfu.ca
Urban Woes
Does Surrey have to play second fiddle to Vancouver in its bid to get help for its homeless? Lower Mainland emergency housing officials complain that the province’s preoccupation with making Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics a success has motivated it to pour millions into building homeless shelters in Vancouver, but ignores Surrey’s homeless. Gordon Price, the director of the SFU City Program, can comment on the tug of war over government funding.
Price is also scheduled to give a Mayor’s Talk at the SFU Surrey campus on Wednesday, May 30. The topic will be Surrey as the Second Great City. Peter Williams, director of SFU’s centre for tourism and policy research, can also comment.
Gordon Price, 604.291.5081, price@sfu.ca
Peter Williams, 604.291.3103; peterw@sfu.ca
Aging habits
A new study predicts that as baby boomers move into their golden years we’ll see more and more pot smoking seniors and recreational drug users in nursing homes — proving old habits are hard to break. Charmaine Spencer, an SFU gerontologist, can comment on the fact that half of the seniors of the future (currently between the ages of 44-54) have used recreational drugs, and the expectation that we’ll see more seniors smoking pot in the future.
Charmaine Spencer, 604.291.5047, cspencer@shaw.ca