MAY 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[highlights]

Hey guys I will post this here for now as it is of interest to everyone who fishes.

I just juggled my personal plans ( at great displeasure to my family ) to ensure that I would be available to participate in the events coming this May 8th at the legislature buildings.

Sure would be great if we could get some big numbers out to this part of the rally.

May 8 Saturday - Walking Sidney to Victoria meeting at Centennial Square at 3pm then onto the Legislature at 4 pm!!! This is the grand finale and the most important part of this effort. MP Fin Donnelly and our west coast Fisheries Critic will meet us there.

It is vital that everyone show up for these events if possible. Ottawa is not going to inconvenience this industry without enormous public participation.


Again this is in opposition to current fish farming practices here on the west coast. Norweigan companies must be held accountable to the standards as set out by our fisheries regulations. We all abide by these laws . We can no longer allow DFO to turn a blind eye in the name of $$$$$$

Consider showing support for the very resource that provides so much value to our lives. Wild salmon enrich everyone of us.

Lets not allow them to dissapear!

HL

 

[beemer]

Highlights!!! Do the words halibut Derby mean anything???????????

 

[Lipripper]

DOH!!!! [B)]


Oh wait! 3pm....... shoulbe be limited out and wieghed in by then [)]

 

[highlights]

Though I am a halibut fisherman, this is just too important to put aside. Derbies will be there next year, the same cannot be said for our salmon.

 

[Lipripper]

Yeah but already got the tickets [V]

 

[highlights]

Walking through the communities of Vancouver Island on the Get Out Migration has been a powerfully emotional experience. We are walking to tell people that if they simply stand up and make themselves visible to government, there is no reason we have to lose our wild salmon. But as we walk into towns with our flags flying, brilliant salmon signs, singing “we are walking to Victoria to save our fish,” an entirely unexpected thing is happening. People are coming up to me and holding me - crying. They are speaking about schools without children, independent livelihoods lost, communities dying. This is about much more than fish.



This is about the independent way of life that built these communities going extinct. As we walk I see a land of beautiful clear streams, fertile soil green with life, air sweet with flowers and then I enter towns so burdened by global corporate markets that they can no longer thrive on the richness of this land. There is something very wrong here, it is painful to witness and people are sad.



Somehow we have become blind to our public resource - millions of salmon flowing annually to our doorstep, feeding people and our economy province wide. We have somehow been convinced that Atlantic salmon, dyed pink, vaccinated, fed Chilean fish, in pens where we cannot catch them, infesting our fish with lice - are better. We believe there are jobs even as the Norwegian companies are mechanizing as fast as they can to reduce the number of jobs. When people see us they know we have been duped and they don’t know how to turn this around. The Get Out Migration has been protected, blessed, gifted and honored by the First Nations who know best what has been lost. Everyday more people are joining our trek - weathering storms in tents, waving at thousand honking motorists on the road to Victoria. Our ranks swell as we enter the towns, white doves have been released, First Nation canoes parallel us, songs have been written, feasts laid out, flotillas surround us, people are awakening.



Do we still live in a democracy? Our essential rights and freedoms are being lost as foreign shareholders decide our fate, what happens on our land, dividing our communities, in an equation where they get more as we get less. As our salmon go so we go, they are a lifeline to the powerful natural world that gave birth to us. We must lead our governments back to where we can survive. Walk with us. Be there for our salmon, our towns, our children for yourself. If you want to be represented you must represent yourself.



Alexandra Morton

www.salmonaresacred.org





May 4 12:30 Costco Nanaimo, 4pm Maffeo Sutton Park, 7pm Agi Hall, Gabriola




May 5 Ladysmith 6pm Legion




May 6 LadySmith to Duncan City Square 5pm




May 7 Mary Winspear Theatre 7:30pm





May 8 Sidney to Victoria - 8am start Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre

2pm Centennial Square

4pm Rally for Wild Salmon BC Legislature (Parliament Buildings)

 

[Karma-Kazi]

I was in Tofino on the 25th of april and they were walking up there! I honked my horn and showed my appreciation to them! Nice to see a good portion of first nations people alot supporting!!! Thanks for the support Highlights.

I also will be doing the derby thing.

-Steve

 

[porcupine]

I suppport the cause too, but have to be at the halibut derby. It's a real shame that there is such a schedulaing conflict on this date.

 

[highlights]

....... I hate to think of your scheduling dillema T - man. To some the choice is clear while others seem still to be a little hazy on whats important to them. No offence. Alot of people are faced with the same decision.[|)] I know you will be there in spirit as we all know your devotion to the resource.

To the others however, I would say that the inconvenience may just be worth the rewards. As a matter of fact , I know so.

 

[beemer]

Hey Highlights , We all like to fish ,that is why we are on this board. Most of us realize that the politics of fishing are important as well if we want to see fish in the future , but I would just ask that the organizers of the rallies have a quick look at the calendar before you do your scheduling.
Victoria has 4 ,at best , big derbies a year this weekend being one of them . We all respect and want to participate in the protection of rec fisheries , but we also want to participate in the big events that define those fisheries.

 

[highlights]

Not knocking anyones decision. The choices you make are yours. It's not my place to place judgment on anyone nor do I care to. Simply put I am doing just a little extra to convince people to come out for a worthy cause that they may not have known about. I too was going to be in the Derby until this came up and I agree with your timing comment.It would seem that the politicians and activists don't take too much note of our derby dates. It really does not help but it is what it is I guess.

Good luck out there guys.

 

[Tsquared]

My wife and I will be there.
T2

No Rigours

 

[highlights]

Good to hear.