I have posted before, if FF's are so sure they are environmentally neutral why don't they voluntarily shut down for 10 years and see if the salmon and Orcas' make recovery or keep declining.
Sort of like a bet. 10 yrs voluntarily if still declines then 20 years FF.
I mean for FF operators it has to be a sure thing right?
IF FF's are killing wild salmon then they are also killing the Orca's. The timeline suggest a direct correlation to Orca decline and expansion of FF's. Any studies on this or is it another secret? 20% is a number to be looked at over various data.
Everything in the rest of this post has been held to the same rigid guidelines the DFO use, In other words only some it might be true or not or just made up. But I reviewed it and it is good enough for the pubic.
Some Orca corpse necropsies show odd internal issues, just covered up like most stuff. I mean have you ever seen one? Or an explanation of one? Nope, just they are starving. But only the ones that eat salmon, not the one's that eat pinnipeds that eat salmon. Any reports or studies on the effects of massive continual doses of these viruses on mammals?
Where is that 1.3 Billion dollars FF's claim BC will lose? How is that number accounted for? 500 workers? The factory where the feed is made and antibiotics added, in Mexico is it? And because it isn't for human consumption it isn't tested. The land pens where some smolts are reared? Easy for them to just switch to Coho, Chinook or Sockeye smolts and probably increase the number of jobs in an attempt to revive some now endangered or extinct runs. (Sicker mountains
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A tender subject now, FN's FF and their claim of ownership. Okay they have a legit claim to where they fished, an area, but not the water itself which moves on like wild salmon do. How do they take on the risk of "their" water if there is pollution? Can they then be sued? To be really exaggerating here, but if they knowingly dumped say tons of iron filings or millions of liters of oil into "their" water are they responsible for damages where "their" water carried that pollution and the damage it caused? I mean if there is something in "their" water that kills the Orcas' off or contaminations "their" water moves on to someone else's water can they be sued? Could interior FN's sue the coast FN's for destroying their food and ceremonial fish?
Is BC now the only FF's left on the west coast? What if Alaska, Washington, Oregon or California sue for damages to their wild fish stocks? Who? The FF's, FN's, provincial or federal governments or all four?