Just wanted to pass this important info on for all who have not yet signed the petition demanding that all Salmon Fish Farms move to closed containment.
Norway which operates almost all Salmon Farms here in BC is admitting that it has all but lost the battle to preserve its Wild Salmon Stocks in the face of sea lice and other diseases endemic to their Open Pen Salmon Fish Farms.
If we want to save our Wild Salmon BC recreational fishermen need to take a much more proactive stand and I encourage everyone for starters who has not already done so to take the time to sign the petition at;
The video is in 4 parts and about 22 minutes in total.
Hello
I apologize for a second email so soon, but important news on the issue of salmon farming has become daily. Most astonishing is the warning sent today to Canada from former Attorney General of Norway, Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn,
“we had an open goal to save wild salmon but we missed the target,”....”If you want to protect wild salmon then you have to move salmon farms away from migration routes. ”
I have posted his entire plea to Canada on my blog, see below for link.
I am working on a very serious incident in Nootka Sound/Esperanza Inlet where reports keep coming to me that sea lice are out of control on salmon farms. Neither the province nor DFO will act to stop this from spreading to eastern Vancouver Island, so we are doing the investigation for them. This problem is exactly what Rieber-Mohn is talking about.
http://www2.canada.com/courierislander/ ... 8cbfc32c7aA group of us went to Nootka Island and found extremely high larval sea lice numbers. These farm salmon are being transported to Quadra Island for processing and a sample taken 90’ down from the plant’s effluent pipe found live lice eggs are pouring into Discovery Passage. Drug resistance in sea lice is causing serious problems in eastern Canada and Norway and means we stand to lose our ability to protect the Fraser sockeye. It is becoming increasingly apparent that wild salmon runs in BC, as in Norway, depend on de-lousing farm salmon that are on the migration routes. The Discovery Islands host 1/3 of all BC’s wild salmon during migrations as well as millions of Norwegian farm salmon. If these Nootka lice attach to the farm salmon we stand to lose a generation of wild salmon and more drugs will be used on our coast, with the end result being the situation in Norway loss of BOTH wild and farm salmon. I have contacted the federal and provincial governments all the evidence with no action from them to contain this. This is a well-known catastrophe. You can follow it by checking on my blog.
Dr Larry Hammell from the University of Prince Edward Island speaks about "an eruption of the lice last summer", developing resistance to sea lice chemicals, "treatment failures" etc
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/maritimenoon_ ... _26452.mp3Professor Tor Einar Horsberg at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science who said: "The harsh treatment that is needed to reach lice limits will lead to more resistant and multi-resistant lice. There is a dramatic development, and I'm worried how this will end":
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utskriftsvennlig/?artId=588564"The sea lice situation is now out of control along the entire coast of Nordland and south” :
http://www.nmf.no/default.aspx?pageId=1 ... 354&news=1I don’t know why we refuse to avoid the situation Norway is facing. It is not even good for the fish farmers. The province of BC maintains there is “no evidence” of drug resistance, but there is evidence everywhere people are willing to look.
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http://www.adopt-a-fry.orgAlexandra Morton
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
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