Little Hawk
Active Member
Hello
For the past month people have been telling me that Grieg Seafood is emptying
salmon farms, due to a lice epidemic that cannot be controlled with drugs. The
public is increasingly coming to me, not government with their concerns.
In this case, the federal government seems immobilized and the provincial
government seems unconcerned, assuring me there is “no evidence of drug
resistance”, even though their own graphs indicate otherwise.
An remarkable group of local people decided to ground-truth the reports and we
have been to Nootka and followed these farm fish as they are taken for
processing. They dove down 90’ to the plant outfall pipe, took a sample and
sent it to me. The province insists these lice are not drug-resistant, are not
surviving in the trucks carrying them across Vancouver Island and are not able
to escape into Discovery Pass. We found otherwise and this is a threat to the
Fraser sockeye.
If these lice are indeed drug-resistant it is too late to stop their spreading,
but we will continue to track them.
The film of our investigation to date is on my blog
_http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
_
Like every fish farm problem that arises in BC, drug-resistant sea lice are
already a serious problem in Norway. Just last week the ex-Attorney General of
Norway issued a warning to Canada about this, and strongly suggests we get
Norwegian salmon farms off our wild salmon migration routes before it is too
late. See my blog for this.
I will be speaking at the Ladner Community Center on Tuesday Feb 23 at 7 pm
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
For the past month people have been telling me that Grieg Seafood is emptying
salmon farms, due to a lice epidemic that cannot be controlled with drugs. The
public is increasingly coming to me, not government with their concerns.
In this case, the federal government seems immobilized and the provincial
government seems unconcerned, assuring me there is “no evidence of drug
resistance”, even though their own graphs indicate otherwise.
An remarkable group of local people decided to ground-truth the reports and we
have been to Nootka and followed these farm fish as they are taken for
processing. They dove down 90’ to the plant outfall pipe, took a sample and
sent it to me. The province insists these lice are not drug-resistant, are not
surviving in the trucks carrying them across Vancouver Island and are not able
to escape into Discovery Pass. We found otherwise and this is a threat to the
Fraser sockeye.
If these lice are indeed drug-resistant it is too late to stop their spreading,
but we will continue to track them.
The film of our investigation to date is on my blog
_http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
_
Like every fish farm problem that arises in BC, drug-resistant sea lice are
already a serious problem in Norway. Just last week the ex-Attorney General of
Norway issued a warning to Canada about this, and strongly suggests we get
Norwegian salmon farms off our wild salmon migration routes before it is too
late. See my blog for this.
I will be speaking at the Ladner Community Center on Tuesday Feb 23 at 7 pm
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
