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Latest from Alexandra Morton on all this
In her view restrictions are a waste of time until we get rid of the salmon feed lots.
"The recent headlines "Draconian chinook cuts loom for anglers, Restrictions raise fears for future of southern Island sport fishing" includes statements like "root causes are habitat loss and water extraction, "DFO should be looking at the commercial and First Nations fisheries."
I don't know how everyone can miss the point that DFO has been hiding two viruses - Salmon Leukemia found to infect 100% of chinook, killing most of them. DFO muzzled their own scientist when she found evidence this virus is killing BC wild salmon. This virus has been pouring out of salmon feedlots throughout the south coast since 1990.
And Infectious Salmon Anemia which DFO found in 55% of east Vancouver Island chinook and specifically told colleagues not to release to the Cohen Inquiry, orders which were disobeyed.
I know how Rachel Carson felt and the many others who can see the pattern of demise of the things we love, but struggle unsuccessfully to communicate them. Is there anyone out there brave enough to communicate this issue more broadly than I am capable of? Anyone who is not compromised by your livelihood? Anyone who really wants to turn this around for the chinook, the whales that depend on them, the people who rely on them?
So much evidence poured out of Cohen about why south coast wild salmon are vanishing, evidence that was hidden, muzzled, suppressed, but now that it is in plain sight, still no one will look at it. Government is dedicated to promoting farm salmon, they just gave the industry another 4 million today and they know a potentially cancer-causing virus and a fish flu virus are going to make it harder to flog the product in a world over-saturated with feedlot salmon.
Many depend on government and industry handouts and so they remain silent, or just don't look.
Chinook populations cannot survive a virus that infects 100% of them and kills most of them. They just can't and unless we turn off the tap, this lethal biological pollutant is going to keep on killing our fish while we squabble over the scraps.
The tragedy is that it would be SO easy to turn this off. Just move the industry away from the wild salmon."
alexandra
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/...nook-collapse-and-salmon-feedlot-viruses.html
In her view restrictions are a waste of time until we get rid of the salmon feed lots.
"The recent headlines "Draconian chinook cuts loom for anglers, Restrictions raise fears for future of southern Island sport fishing" includes statements like "root causes are habitat loss and water extraction, "DFO should be looking at the commercial and First Nations fisheries."
I don't know how everyone can miss the point that DFO has been hiding two viruses - Salmon Leukemia found to infect 100% of chinook, killing most of them. DFO muzzled their own scientist when she found evidence this virus is killing BC wild salmon. This virus has been pouring out of salmon feedlots throughout the south coast since 1990.
And Infectious Salmon Anemia which DFO found in 55% of east Vancouver Island chinook and specifically told colleagues not to release to the Cohen Inquiry, orders which were disobeyed.
I know how Rachel Carson felt and the many others who can see the pattern of demise of the things we love, but struggle unsuccessfully to communicate them. Is there anyone out there brave enough to communicate this issue more broadly than I am capable of? Anyone who is not compromised by your livelihood? Anyone who really wants to turn this around for the chinook, the whales that depend on them, the people who rely on them?
So much evidence poured out of Cohen about why south coast wild salmon are vanishing, evidence that was hidden, muzzled, suppressed, but now that it is in plain sight, still no one will look at it. Government is dedicated to promoting farm salmon, they just gave the industry another 4 million today and they know a potentially cancer-causing virus and a fish flu virus are going to make it harder to flog the product in a world over-saturated with feedlot salmon.
Many depend on government and industry handouts and so they remain silent, or just don't look.
Chinook populations cannot survive a virus that infects 100% of them and kills most of them. They just can't and unless we turn off the tap, this lethal biological pollutant is going to keep on killing our fish while we squabble over the scraps.
The tragedy is that it would be SO easy to turn this off. Just move the industry away from the wild salmon."
alexandra
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/...nook-collapse-and-salmon-feedlot-viruses.html
