Little Hawk
Active Member
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
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