{"id":453619,"date":"2026-02-04T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:09","slug":"ffaw-welcomes-governments-decision-to-withdraw-support-for-south-coast-marine-conservation-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453619\/","title":{"rendered":"FFAW Welcomes Government\u2019s Decision to Withdraw Support for South Coast Marine Conservation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ffaw-president-dwan-street-february-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"FFAW Welcomes Government's Decision to Withdraw Support for South Coast Marine Conservation Area\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FFAW President Dwan Street<\/p>\n<p>The FFAW is applauding the provincial government\u2019s decision to withdraw their support for a National Marine Conservation Area on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the province terminated the MOU that was reached to conduct a feasibility assessment of the project. <\/p>\n<p>There has been strong opposition to the idea ever since it was first announced, with many arguing it would be detrimental to the fishery in that area.<\/p>\n<p>The FFAW says the province\u2019s decision acts on a commitment that premier Tony Wakeham made during the election last fall, and that government is prepared to act \u201cdecisively\u201d in support of the fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>The union argues that there is no evidence that the designation  would result in meaningful conservation outcomes, and that the restrictions would \u201cundermine livelihoods\u201d while allowing other industrial activities to continue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; FFAW President Dwan Street The FFAW is applauding the provincial government\u2019s decision to withdraw their support for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-453619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}