Little Hawk
Active Member
As always, when Alex sends me something significant, I am more than willing to pass it on to my fellow sportie's and conservationists.
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/news/story.html?id=913af0e6-31ff-4ec4-b66f-908cbfc32c7a
A 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_20100126_26452.mp3
_Professor 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=121&articleId=2354&news=1
<http://www.nmf.no/default.aspx?pageId=121&articleId=2354&news=1>
_
I 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.
You can join our efforts at www.adopt-a-fry.org
Alexandra Morton
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
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/news/story.html?id=913af0e6-31ff-4ec4-b66f-908cbfc32c7a
A 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_20100126_26452.mp3
_Professor 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=121&articleId=2354&news=1
<http://www.nmf.no/default.aspx?pageId=121&articleId=2354&news=1>
_
I 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.
You can join our efforts at www.adopt-a-fry.org
Alexandra Morton
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
