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The government’s role is beaches because the on-site operations in a sense supervisory: it establishes an manager could not spare the helicopter time Incident Command that attempts to co- from either of the twomachines he had ordinate all the government agencies, LivingOceans and several other flying in the area, to lift crewmembers to consultants and owners’ agents as they organizations remained. [...] The extent of the spill then LivingOceans and colleague organization in publicly acknowledgedwas only the tip of the BCMarineDebrisWorkingGroup the iceberg. [...] Not surprisingly, the research keepyourpromise agendawas nearly devoid ofwork devoted to The industry’s arguments included the the impacts of netpens onwild salmon, until idea that theMinister didn’t really have the deadline prescribed by the Cohen jurisdiction to shut down awhole region’s Commission (September, 2020) for closing farms theway she did; and that the Discovery Islands salmon farmswas. [...] Management of the response is instead—an area that was not yet on the beaches for their own safety as well as for the the ship owner’s responsibility, but the agenda for cleanup but onewell-known to sake of the people trying to plan the logistics process would be greatly improved by a us froma decade of summer cleaning. [...] placewith all of the coastal First Nations and comment at the timewas, ‘you don’t go other communities; and channels to from zero toworld class at the stroke of a The disaster continues to unfold and the communicate spill response information pen’.