Kelly Cove Salmon has been ordered to pay 500 thousand dollars after pleading guilty to two charges in St. Stephen under the Federal Fisheries Act with all other charges being dropped.
Kelly Cove Salmon is owned by Cooke Aquaculture and was charged with using an illegal pesticide in 2009 and 2010 to get rid of sea lice but hundreds of lobsters were killed in the Bay of Fundy.
400 thousand of that half million dollars will go to the Environmental Studies programme at U-N-B and scholarships. The C-E-O of Cooke Aquaculture, Glenn Cooke releasing a statement that the company decided not to fight the charges even though it questions the allegations to avoid a long and public legal battle in court.
As the
baby boomer generation gets older, the rates of Alzheimer's will get
higher. Jamie Matthews of the Alzheimer's Society of New Brunswick tells
CHSJ News it's projected that in the next quarter century, the number
of people suffering from the disease will more than double.
He tells
that even though it's a disease that's all around us, we still have
some misconceptions. One of which is that we often think dementia is
isolated to nursing homes, but in fact, 50% of those diagnosed still
live in the community. The other is that people with dementia can't make
new memories, which Matthews says is untrue.
Matthews
tells us there are over 13,000 people currently living with the disease
in the province, and in the next year alone it's predicted we'll have
2500 new cases. If you want to help out, you can sign up for Walk for
Memories, an Alzheimer's fundraising and awareness walk in Saint John. For event
details and to register, click here.
For the next 6 to 8 weeks nature-lovers will have a chance to see more wild birds than usual in their natural habitats.
It's the
season where ducks come out in droves to feed and mate before they
start to settle down and build their nests. Andrew Holland of the Nature
Conservancy of Canada tells CHSJ News it's a great activity for
families. He says it's a beautiful and spectacular sight.
Holland says most local ponds, streams and rivers will have more wildlife activity at this time of year.
