Little Hawk
Active Member
Howdy,
Had the great pleasure of attending a two-day conference on fish-farming in mid Oct. The conference, sponsored by a wealthy Chilean environmentalist and held at the Strathcona Park Lodge, was well attended by environmentalist's, scientists', First Nation's Chief's, the President of the BC Tourism & Wilderness butt.,and (like me) fishermen from Norway, Chile, Canada & the USA. This was the last of three such fish-farming summit's with the previous two happening in Norway and Chile.
This assembly of people from around the Globe, gathered to share information and ideas, was unprecedented in the long-history of opposition to this pathetic industry.
Several initiatives were born of this gathering, including the press-release which I will attempt to copy following.
As founder of the Wild Salmon Alliance I will throw what I can behind the growing effort to get Campbell thrown out of office next Spring.
Standing for Wild Salmon,
Terry Anderson
International Declaration Against Unsustainable
Salmon Farming
We are global environmentalists, First Nations, scientists, tourism business owners and
operators, and fishermen/women fighting to save our coasts. We have inspected salmon
farms, and held summits in Chile, Canada and Norway. We conclude that the science is
conclusive: open-net cage salmon farming is severely impacting the world’s oceans.
Specifically salmon farming is:
1. Ecologically devastating (e.g.: destabilizing ecosystems by killing wild salmon across the
northern hemisphere, discharging invasive species. Depriving wildlife such as bears, eagles,
whales as well as human communities of a primary food source, causing massive viral and
sea lice epidemics, and genetic pollution)
2. Socially destructive: (e.g.: leading to worker death and labor law infractions in Chile,
threatening valuable local economies, degrading traditional food resources and ignoring the
rights of Canadian First Nations, Chilean artisanal fishermen, and Norwegian and Sami
fisherman)
3. Threatening local food security with drug, feed and feces discharge: (e.g.: chemical net
antifoulants, unapproved louse chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, flesh colorants, tons of
nitrogen and phosphorous associated with toxic algae blooms)
4. Threatening the global food supply by fishing the North Atlantic and South Pacific to
produce aquaculture feed resulting in a net loss of fish supply available to feed people,
affecting also the marine food web.
We found that the salmon farm corporations, largely Norwegian owned, are denying impact
and distracting the public from hearing the truth in all our countries. We found that
governments are complicit with the fish farming industry delaying protection of ocean
resources and also withholding the truth from the public that salmon farms kill wild salmon
and harm other indigenous species.
The United Nations Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries adopted in 1995 states “As
a primary goal, aquaculture development should conserve genetic diversity and minimize
negative effects of farmed fish on wild fish populations, while increasing supplies of fish
for human consumption.” We declare each of these principles violated by today’s global
marine salmon farming industry.
Ocean ecosystems are essential to life on earth. As such we are resolved to protect our
oceans from salmon farming. We are calling for a global moratorium on raising salmon in
net pens and an immediate halt to the destruction of public ocean resources by this
industry. We invite others to learn more and sign at www.ourglobalocean.org
It is our intention to prevent this industry from continuing to devastate our Oceans.
Signed this day November 2, 2008
Chief Bob Chamberlin Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-kwa-mish, Canadian First Nation.
Kurt Willy Oddekalv, Green Warriors, Norway
Wolfram Heise Proyecto Pumalin, Chile
Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project, U.S.A.
Alexandra Morton, Adopt-a-fry.org, Canada
Darren Blaney, Homalco Canadian First Nation
Captain Paul Watson, President, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, USA
Anne Mosness, Go Wild Campaign, USA
Craig Orr, Stan Proboszcz, Watershed Watch, Canada
Terry Anderson, Wild Salmon Alliance, Canada
Darlene Schanfald, Olympic Environmental Council, USA
Ocean Aura Design Inc., Canada
Don Staniford, USA
Brian Gunn, President, Wilderness Tourism Association, Canada
Bruce Sandison, Scottish Sporting Services, Scotland
Ronald Pfeil Mann, Isla Magdalena Nacional Park, Chile
Steve Strand, Retired University of California Los Angeles, Marine Biology, Canada
Myrna Boulding, President, Strathcona Park Lodge and Outdoor Education Centre.
Steve Lawson, First Nations Environmental Network, Canada
Bartlett Naylor, Capital Strategies, USA
Doug Tompkins USA Juan Carlos Cardenas, Centro Ecoceanos, Chile
Had the great pleasure of attending a two-day conference on fish-farming in mid Oct. The conference, sponsored by a wealthy Chilean environmentalist and held at the Strathcona Park Lodge, was well attended by environmentalist's, scientists', First Nation's Chief's, the President of the BC Tourism & Wilderness butt.,and (like me) fishermen from Norway, Chile, Canada & the USA. This was the last of three such fish-farming summit's with the previous two happening in Norway and Chile.
This assembly of people from around the Globe, gathered to share information and ideas, was unprecedented in the long-history of opposition to this pathetic industry.
Several initiatives were born of this gathering, including the press-release which I will attempt to copy following.
As founder of the Wild Salmon Alliance I will throw what I can behind the growing effort to get Campbell thrown out of office next Spring.
Standing for Wild Salmon,
Terry Anderson
International Declaration Against Unsustainable
Salmon Farming
We are global environmentalists, First Nations, scientists, tourism business owners and
operators, and fishermen/women fighting to save our coasts. We have inspected salmon
farms, and held summits in Chile, Canada and Norway. We conclude that the science is
conclusive: open-net cage salmon farming is severely impacting the world’s oceans.
Specifically salmon farming is:
1. Ecologically devastating (e.g.: destabilizing ecosystems by killing wild salmon across the
northern hemisphere, discharging invasive species. Depriving wildlife such as bears, eagles,
whales as well as human communities of a primary food source, causing massive viral and
sea lice epidemics, and genetic pollution)
2. Socially destructive: (e.g.: leading to worker death and labor law infractions in Chile,
threatening valuable local economies, degrading traditional food resources and ignoring the
rights of Canadian First Nations, Chilean artisanal fishermen, and Norwegian and Sami
fisherman)
3. Threatening local food security with drug, feed and feces discharge: (e.g.: chemical net
antifoulants, unapproved louse chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, flesh colorants, tons of
nitrogen and phosphorous associated with toxic algae blooms)
4. Threatening the global food supply by fishing the North Atlantic and South Pacific to
produce aquaculture feed resulting in a net loss of fish supply available to feed people,
affecting also the marine food web.
We found that the salmon farm corporations, largely Norwegian owned, are denying impact
and distracting the public from hearing the truth in all our countries. We found that
governments are complicit with the fish farming industry delaying protection of ocean
resources and also withholding the truth from the public that salmon farms kill wild salmon
and harm other indigenous species.
The United Nations Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries adopted in 1995 states “As
a primary goal, aquaculture development should conserve genetic diversity and minimize
negative effects of farmed fish on wild fish populations, while increasing supplies of fish
for human consumption.” We declare each of these principles violated by today’s global
marine salmon farming industry.
Ocean ecosystems are essential to life on earth. As such we are resolved to protect our
oceans from salmon farming. We are calling for a global moratorium on raising salmon in
net pens and an immediate halt to the destruction of public ocean resources by this
industry. We invite others to learn more and sign at www.ourglobalocean.org
It is our intention to prevent this industry from continuing to devastate our Oceans.
Signed this day November 2, 2008
Chief Bob Chamberlin Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-kwa-mish, Canadian First Nation.
Kurt Willy Oddekalv, Green Warriors, Norway
Wolfram Heise Proyecto Pumalin, Chile
Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project, U.S.A.
Alexandra Morton, Adopt-a-fry.org, Canada
Darren Blaney, Homalco Canadian First Nation
Captain Paul Watson, President, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, USA
Anne Mosness, Go Wild Campaign, USA
Craig Orr, Stan Proboszcz, Watershed Watch, Canada
Terry Anderson, Wild Salmon Alliance, Canada
Darlene Schanfald, Olympic Environmental Council, USA
Ocean Aura Design Inc., Canada
Don Staniford, USA
Brian Gunn, President, Wilderness Tourism Association, Canada
Bruce Sandison, Scottish Sporting Services, Scotland
Ronald Pfeil Mann, Isla Magdalena Nacional Park, Chile
Steve Strand, Retired University of California Los Angeles, Marine Biology, Canada
Myrna Boulding, President, Strathcona Park Lodge and Outdoor Education Centre.
Steve Lawson, First Nations Environmental Network, Canada
Bartlett Naylor, Capital Strategies, USA
Doug Tompkins USA Juan Carlos Cardenas, Centro Ecoceanos, Chile
