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Well-Known Member
https://www.watershed-watch.org/
We have a moment of opportunity right now to make things better for B.C.’s wild salmon, and you can help by taking action now.
Premier Horgan’s government has taken some positive steps for wild salmon—like the provincial collaboration with First Nations to move fish farms out of the Broughton Archipelago.
We have also seen some serious missteps, like when Premier Horgan appointed a Wild Salmon Advisory Council dominated by fishing industry representatives, with no independent fisheries scientists and no conservation advocacy groups.
Last Friday, the industry-dominated council released their final recommendations and Premier Horgan is now deciding which of these recommendations he is going to accept and put into a “made-in-B.C. wild salmon strategy.”
The council’s recommendations for protecting and restoring salmon habitat are excellent and we need to encourage the Premier to put serious muscle behind them. But other recommendations are dangerously ill-informed--like boosting the old-school commercial fishing industry with no mention of preventing overfishing by moving to more sustainable fishing methods; or boosting artificial salmon production in hatcheries despite the growing evidence that hatchery operations often harm wild fish and should only be used as a last resort.
We need to tell the Premier and our elected representatives to put wild salmon and science first, and we only have a few days to do it before key decisions are made. Can you spare one minute to send a letter now?
Thanks for joining us in standing up for wild salmon!
Sincerely,
Aaron Hill
We have a moment of opportunity right now to make things better for B.C.’s wild salmon, and you can help by taking action now.
Premier Horgan’s government has taken some positive steps for wild salmon—like the provincial collaboration with First Nations to move fish farms out of the Broughton Archipelago.
We have also seen some serious missteps, like when Premier Horgan appointed a Wild Salmon Advisory Council dominated by fishing industry representatives, with no independent fisheries scientists and no conservation advocacy groups.
Last Friday, the industry-dominated council released their final recommendations and Premier Horgan is now deciding which of these recommendations he is going to accept and put into a “made-in-B.C. wild salmon strategy.”
The council’s recommendations for protecting and restoring salmon habitat are excellent and we need to encourage the Premier to put serious muscle behind them. But other recommendations are dangerously ill-informed--like boosting the old-school commercial fishing industry with no mention of preventing overfishing by moving to more sustainable fishing methods; or boosting artificial salmon production in hatcheries despite the growing evidence that hatchery operations often harm wild fish and should only be used as a last resort.
We need to tell the Premier and our elected representatives to put wild salmon and science first, and we only have a few days to do it before key decisions are made. Can you spare one minute to send a letter now?
Thanks for joining us in standing up for wild salmon!
Sincerely,
Aaron Hill