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Amy Smart, a former Times Colonist reporter, was honored on Monday night at the Jack Webster Foundation Awards for her article on fish farming.
Smart was nominated in the entity / business report category for his article, B.C. Fish Farming: A Tangled Net, which appeared in the Times Colonist's December 3, 2017 issue.
Sam Cooper, Vancouver Sun reporter, won the award for his work on Dirty Money in British Columbia: Casinos, Drugs, Real Estate.
Smart is now working for the Canadian press in Vancouver and his signature continues to appear in the Times Colonist.
The winners were announced at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.
Smart traveled to the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island and the Broughton Archipelago late last year to study his 3,500-word history of pen fish farming. Salmon farms were in the limelight last year after Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal protesters began working on fish farms this summer.
History has addressed the environmental concerns of opponents of fish farming. He reviewed research on the spread of diseases in farmed, wild and hatchery-raised fish.
Smart's story also took readers to a fish processing plant in Port Hardy to illustrate the economic importance of this industry for northern Vancouver Island.
Former Times Colonist reporter Rob Shaw won the "Economics of public insurance" award, in which he explored how ICBC operates in the "Business, Industry and Economics" categories. His stories frequently appear in the Times Colonist. – Times Colonist
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