Perhaps considering what looks like two maybe three in the whole of Barkley Sound it gives Wild Salmon a better chance to avoid the Sea Lice laden, disease riddled (including PRV) open net cage Fish Farms to make past them versus the Gauntlet dozens and dozens of these polluting Fish Farms in the Broughton where mostly all the smolts from the Southern SOG andPuget Sound need to pass on there journey. Might be why Barkley runs are stable and the SOG are not don't you think?
Yep, both sites were not reporting.
Ugg - this is why the FF people struggle with you folks. Not because you don't mean well, but one member states one thing then everyone decides it is a fact. People like me are reading the government site and simply point out that a fish farms do exist in the areas of concern. Look, my question to GLG was "were these farms offset enough from a run to not cause harm?" Now, every FF anti advocate is somehow trying to bend the evidence to fit that there must have been no salmon there. Maybe you are right. But if they were there and salmon existed, why suddenly say - "well it is a density thing, or..." . Alright, then if we follow that reasoning, there is probably a way for FF's to coexist with wild salmon. Lets finally agree on that. Cuttlefish - read up on the Jane Bay site - salmon were tested - then independently tested then proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be safe. Never did get contaminated. Were harvested and sold. And the Cermaq site was not a nursery.. Where do you get this?
Go to the the righthandmost column of the database I linked to.
Sorry, - so it exists?
You got me on this one - don';t really get what you are saying? So my point was this, if the salmon farm existed and were harvesting salmon during these periods, would you say, maybe, that FF's in the presence of migrating salmon can coexist without any detrimental effects?
I know... They exist now lets deny somehow they exist.... yikes. Why not just find the secret sauce for FF's and wild salmon to coexist?
What is the REAL cause of salmon decline? Not denying that FF's have an effect, but since you Anti-FF'ers can't be honest, how do you rank them? Evry time I ask about the stressors, you all avoid a simple question. What is the number one problem facing our salmon population decline: FF's, or rising ocean temps, or habitat destruction or over fishing? Do you have any thoughts on this? Nobody, except poor old Fogged In was willing to take a positon. Will you do it Terrin?
I am saying that the sockeye returning to Alberni Inlet in 2016 (see you own post #899) did not appear to have passed by active salmon farms in Barkley Sound either during their outmigration to the ocean in 2014 or during their inmigration in 2016. I am also saying that it appears their parent cohort did not pass any active salmon farms in Barkley Sound during their inmigration in 2012.
