Alex: No Mistake on Origins of fish-farming

[Little Hawk]

This is a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about the origins of fish-farming in BC and just how complicit government was (is) all along as they knew damn well the industry would never be a big employer. Check out the graph in the link to Alex's Blog.

Thanks Alex! Job well done!


Hello:

In April, 1984, more than 200 biologists, civil servants and hopeful entrepreneurs gathered in a penthouse ballroom high above Vancouver to see the Science Council of Canada unveil a discussion paper designed to lay the groundwork for a Canadian aquaculture industry.
"/The days of common property fishing are over,/" they were told.

This is how salmon feedlots got started.

The fishing union paper, THE FISHERMAN, was there and over the next 10 years they chronicled what the politicians, bureaucrats, fishermen and First Nations said and did. I have collected some of what was written and it makes for chilling discovery.

Decisions were made that would affect 10,000s of British Columbians. Everyone in the coastal communities as well as those waiting for the sockeye to come up the Fraser River. This was done in broad daylight, so it is understandable why the politicians might think we don't care.

http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/...1/salmon-feedlots-this-was-not-a-mistake.html

It is time for a conversation about what we, the people who do want wild salmon and lobster, two of the last great fisheries left in the world, are going to do about this.

Alexandra Morton

 

[Foxsea]

This is a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about the origins of fish-farming in BC and just how complicit government was (is) all along as they knew damn well the industry would never be a big employer. Check out the graph in the link to Alex's Blog.

Thanks Alex! Job well done!...

"It is time for a conversation about what we, the people who do want wild salmon and lobster, two of the last great fisheries left in the world, are going to do about this."

Alexandra Morton

Thanks for posting this, L.H.
The conversation for us is to continue to pressure governments to get feedlots out of the oceans and to pressure governments and the industries that benefit from the decline of wild salmon to reconsider what they do.

“For fisheries policy-makers the appeal of aquaculture does not lie in its ability to produce food. They like the fact that it opens the way to maintain existing fish production while wild stocks fall victim to dams, logging, offshore drilling and a host of other problems.”

"This is a very significant statement and gives a person pause. Is this why the 'The days of common property fishing are over,' so dams, logging, offshore drilling can go forward more easily? Indeed there are more private power applications, than private fishery applications. Are these two private industries linked through compliant governments?" - A. Morton

Keep up the pressure and the donations to ensure that common property fishing in Canada is secured for future generations. We have the numbers and we have a voice. That can make all the difference.

 

[Whole in the Water]

Again excellent post LH! Everyone who cares about wild salmon and our time honored, hard fought for right as citizens to be able to fish for wild salmon should read this post before it is too late....