CANADIAN Chinook salmon grower, Creative Salmon, has commenced a defamation action against anti-salmon cage farming activist, Don Staniford.

Creative Salmon claim that two press releases written by Mr Staniford and released through The Friends of Clayoquot Sound are defamatory of their company.

Creative Salmon, a founding member of the Pacific Organic Seafood Association, claim that they have not used any antibiotics in any fish destined for market since October 2001. The Staniford press releases state, in part, that Creative Salmon has lied to the public with respect to its use of antibiotics and suggest that it has committed breaches of the Competition Act. These allegations, as well as others made by Mr. Staniford and which are referred to in Creative Salmon's statement of claim, are adamantly denied by Creative Salmon. Creative Salmon says it is anxious for this matter to proceed in the Courts and have the issues fully and publicly canvassed.

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