medherring
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Thought I would post this link that came across my facebook today.
http://sendalextovictoria.ca/
Alexandra Morton for MLA.
http://sendalextovictoria.ca/
Alexandra Morton for MLA.
Send Alexandra to Victoria
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Whole in the Water
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and I'm sure that they are many more like me...
Whole in the Water
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Well considering you are a lice farm supporter whose industry has a growing negative environmental impact and shrinking economic contribution your opinion on this issue both predictable and of increasingly less concern as the numbers of citizens that are against lice farms grows. Please don't bother to reply as no one really cares on this forum. Yet you most likely will as that is your job as a lice farm hack.
Little Hawk
Active Member
Few in this Province have a better grasp of the gargantuan importance Pacific Salmon play in the order of most all living things in BC.
A stronger voice against the terrible impacts of the fish-farming industry, IPP power-projects and an ecologically destructive Harper government would be hard to find anywhere!
She has my full support and name on the petition.
GO ALEX!
A stronger voice against the terrible impacts of the fish-farming industry, IPP power-projects and an ecologically destructive Harper government would be hard to find anywhere!
She has my full support and name on the petition.
GO ALEX!
Theb55
Active Member
Initially I thought sending Alex to Victoria would be a good thing but I really have serious doubts about that. Given nothing really ever gets done in our legislature, the sacrifice we who love the ocean and it's harvest would be enormous. Alex has done more to expose the evils of fish farming than everyone else combined. I fear we would loose that if she were taken out of the field. It is up to us, not the legislature, to get the message out. The best way to silence her would be to put her there. No, she belongs near the ocean, exposing evils and campaigning against open pen fish farming.
Mourning Wood
Member
All I know is that I'm really looking forward to her presentation at the SVIAC AGM.
Trucking eh
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Agreed Dave, too bad the fish farms blind many people actual threats to salmon. Maybe she wpuld also get a feel for what science is.
Trucking eh
New Member
Agreed Dave, too bad the fish farm saga blinds many peopleon the actual threats to salmon. Maybe she would also get a feel for what science is.
Birdsnest
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For example the Alaskan pollock fisher which it has just been proven has decimated Alaskan spring salmon runs down 90%. All the while they have been spending money here with the wild salmon conservancy trying to blame salmon farms. We have known about this for some time. Those are our fish up there too!!!! There is a good article on it in a salmon and stealhead mag somewhere but I could never find it online. Our local draggers dig up there share too.
Englishman
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Once again Birdsnest you are throwing out complete nonsense without any substantiating sources to back it up. The salmon by-catch of the pollack industry is now quite well managed and getting smaller. It is less than 2% of the chinook salmon caught commercially. Here are the articles which explain how it is done, including pollock fishery closures when the agreed levels of by-catch have been reached.
http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/npfmc/PDFdocuments/bycatch/GOAChinookBycatch511.pdf
http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/inseason/chinook_salmon_mortality.pdf
http://www.fishonline.org/fish/alaska-pollock-walleye-pollock-27
http://www.msc.org/track-a-fishery/fisheries-in-the-program/certified/pacific/gulf-of-alaska-pollock
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/artic...-shocks-bering-sea-commercial-pollock-fishery
You don't fool anyone with your red herrings. Salmon feed lots on migration routes are the single biggest threat to wild salmon in BC and all your attempts at confusion, obfuscation, and pointing in other directions does not change that. Nor does it change the fact that the industry relies almost entirely on "strip-mining" the oceans for forage fish to make pellets which are then shipped across the world to the feed lots. Salmon net pen feed lots are nothing more than environmentally destructive conveyor belts for moving fish protein, primarily from the southern oceans, to the the rich northern hemisphere. They are a deluded "something for nothing" con trick that only ignorant economists and their apologists could believe in. To anyone with any scientific understanding of ecosystems and their relationships, salmon net pen feed lots are insanity.
Dave S
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Trucking eh
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Sorry but it is far from the single worst thing to migrating salmon. If you would have asked me 5 years ago I would have 100% agreed with you. However, I have became educated and have learned that alot of what we see in the press by Morton is skewed B.S. That being said i beleive that there are some issues with the farms, but are pale incomparison to the rest of the major issue such as fish ranching of chum and pinks. The issues with farms are much smaller on Pacific salmon than you would think, especially Coho and Chinook, and the major fish that is hurt by farms wich is never talked about is the steelhead. Even then by the time steelhead are in the ocean they are too big for lice to effect them ( like all the other salmon). Anyhow good thread everyone is entitled to there own opinnion this is mine and long live P.salmon, just wish people could understand that just because it makes front page of a newspaper dosn't make it true.
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Sorry but it is far from the single worst thing to migrating salmon. If you would have asked me 5 years ago I would have 100% agreed with you. However, I have became educated and have learned that alot of what we see in the press by Morton is skewed B.S. That being said i beleive that there are some issues with the farms, but are pale incomparison to the rest of the major issue such as fish ranching of chum and pinks. The issues with farms are much smaller on Pacific salmon than you would think, especially Coho and Chinook, and the major fish that is hurt by farms wich is never talked about is the steelhead. Even then by the time steelhead are in the ocean they are too big for lice to effect them ( like all the other salmon). Anyhow good thread everyone is entitled to there own opinnion this is mine and long live P.salmon, just wish people could understand that just because it makes front page of a newspaper dosn't make it true.
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