Wake up call...again!!!!!!!!
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cuttlefish
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Done. Letter sent.
the fog ducker
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Little Hawk
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Awesome post of more great work from Alex & Twyla.
Who will be held accountable?
This is just the tip of the lice-berg!
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
Who will be held accountable?
This is just the tip of the lice-berg!
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
highlights
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another idea guys is to educate your friends and family any chance you get. Some people are idiots an actually get angry when I include them on a group mail containig such information. It amazes me when so called "friends" actually get lit up about political items....so just a warning.... it isn't alway well received but I give it a shot anyways. I sent this out on a mass mailing list last night. Everyone on my address book got a copy of the file to veiw.
Like I said, the more people that actually know something about this the better. When asked in a poll if people really thought anything was wrong with fish farming the answers were alarming ( to me ) People flat out thought fish farms are great...........I'm convinced it's because they don't know otherwise.
Lets help our cause.
Like I said, the more people that actually know something about this the better. When asked in a poll if people really thought anything was wrong with fish farming the answers were alarming ( to me ) People flat out thought fish farms are great...........I'm convinced it's because they don't know otherwise.
Lets help our cause.
highlights
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Check out:
www.adopt-a-fry.org
wildsalmoncircle.com
STOP BUYING FARMED SALMON
Write a letter to those incharge ( hand written is most effective, no postage required)
Prime minister Stephen Harper
80 Wellington St., Ottawa ON,K1A 0A2;
pm@pm.gc.ca; Fax: 613 941 6900
Gail Shea, Minister of fisheries and oceans
Parliament Buildings, Wellington St.,Ottawa ON, K1A 0A6;
min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Make sure to CC your local MP; find your MP'scontact info at:
http://canada.gc.ca/directories-repertoires/direct-eng.html#mp
andCC:BC Premier Gordon Campbell ( postage required to BC government)
PO Box 9041,STN PROV GOVT,Victoria BC,V8W 9E1;
premier@gov.bc.ca ; phone: 250 387 1715; fax 250 387 0087
Hope this helps
HL
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jandj2
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Thanks for posting Highlites.Sent letter.
searun
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Sent my e-mail to my MP outlining the problem and I also attached a clip of this video and asked that he view it, and then asked for a personal meeting. If everyone visits their MP and shows them this video we might just generate the concern at a political level that this issue will cost them votes. If we all took just a few minutes to write our MP's we may just get them worried enough to take action. Please send a note.
Here is a portion of the letter, please feel free to modify it etc. and send it to your MP.
James Lunney..........
The issue I would like James to investigate is contained in the video attachment. I have witnessed what salmon farming has done over the 2 decades they have been in existence in B.C. Back in the 1990’s I witnessed Georgia Straight coho disappear and they have never returned to this day. This run of salmon was the mainstay of recreational sportfishing tourism on the East Coast of Vancouver Island. Today, many of those small businesses associated with the Georgia Straight fishery have vanished like the salmon themselves. At first many of us in the sportfishing community welcomed the salmon farms as a viable alternative to commercial salmon fishing. Unfortunately what we did not realize was the open net pens were spreading disease and sea lice to wild salmon as they migrated past these farms as juvenile salmon. At this stage in their lives the young salmon are highly susceptible to disease and sea lice. The mounting evidence is establishing a strong connection between salmon farming and mortality of migrating juvenile salmon. Moreover, the science is demonstrating that ocean currents are capable of spreading disease laden water for miles from the net pen source. The impact is silent but severe as evidenced by the complete collapse of wild Fraser River sockeye in 2009.
Additionally, this disease and sea lice problem is well documented in European countries where salmon farming originated. In many of these countries there are no wild salmon left, and the science has established a clear connection between salmon farming and the extinction of Europe’s wild salmon. We need to listen, learn and act on the experience of others who have been down this road ahead of us before it is too late.
What I’m looking to James for is his support to push the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to aggressively investigate these problems and take regulatory action to fulfill their fiduciary duty to protect wild salmon. What is necessary in my view is all open net pen salmon farms must be held accountable to cease operations until they are able to move to closed containment systems that do not adversely impact migrating wild juvenile salmon. I strongly urge James to view the attached video, and then I would like to arrange a meeting with him to hear his views on how we can address this problem before it is too late for wild salmon.
Could you please contact us with an appointment date to meet with James.
Thank you,
Searun
Here is a portion of the letter, please feel free to modify it etc. and send it to your MP.
James Lunney..........
The issue I would like James to investigate is contained in the video attachment. I have witnessed what salmon farming has done over the 2 decades they have been in existence in B.C. Back in the 1990’s I witnessed Georgia Straight coho disappear and they have never returned to this day. This run of salmon was the mainstay of recreational sportfishing tourism on the East Coast of Vancouver Island. Today, many of those small businesses associated with the Georgia Straight fishery have vanished like the salmon themselves. At first many of us in the sportfishing community welcomed the salmon farms as a viable alternative to commercial salmon fishing. Unfortunately what we did not realize was the open net pens were spreading disease and sea lice to wild salmon as they migrated past these farms as juvenile salmon. At this stage in their lives the young salmon are highly susceptible to disease and sea lice. The mounting evidence is establishing a strong connection between salmon farming and mortality of migrating juvenile salmon. Moreover, the science is demonstrating that ocean currents are capable of spreading disease laden water for miles from the net pen source. The impact is silent but severe as evidenced by the complete collapse of wild Fraser River sockeye in 2009.
Additionally, this disease and sea lice problem is well documented in European countries where salmon farming originated. In many of these countries there are no wild salmon left, and the science has established a clear connection between salmon farming and the extinction of Europe’s wild salmon. We need to listen, learn and act on the experience of others who have been down this road ahead of us before it is too late.
What I’m looking to James for is his support to push the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to aggressively investigate these problems and take regulatory action to fulfill their fiduciary duty to protect wild salmon. What is necessary in my view is all open net pen salmon farms must be held accountable to cease operations until they are able to move to closed containment systems that do not adversely impact migrating wild juvenile salmon. I strongly urge James to view the attached video, and then I would like to arrange a meeting with him to hear his views on how we can address this problem before it is too late for wild salmon.
Could you please contact us with an appointment date to meet with James.
Thank you,
Searun
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Roll the Bones
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I am having a terrifying time with this thread. The demand Worldwide for Salmon in retail and dining is growing by leaps and bounds every day. I work for a company (Sysco Foodservice) in Seattle, which is part of the foodservice giant headquartered in Houston Texas.I am actually in charge of the PNW sales of Proteins which involves Seafood and in large part a huge demand for Farmed Atlantics. We buy almost all of our farmed Salmon from BC because of the freshness issue, that being said we are supposed to be a company that supports Sustainable Eco friendly fisheries. A good friend of mine is part of the Heirarchy in Houston's Seafood procurement Dept. We are supposed to have inspectors visiting these sites. So my plan is first thing tomorrow morning I will place a call to Houston and my good friend Rick and find out if we are addressing this issue. We are the largest food supplier in the world and if we ask questions and refuse to buy from the growers contributing to this problem we can and will impact this problem. I love the WCVI and visit it with my tourist dollars every year, I want your wild stocks up! I would like to be part of the solution and not the problem. So I will keep you posted on what I find out from corporate and I promise to be vigilent in doing everything on our part. On a personal note I am in foodservice establishments all day every day and preach against the use of Farmed fish, but the cost issue of wild caught fish is sometimes too much to handle for most establishments in this tough economy. We need to apply pressure to the other large distributors like Costco, Food Services of America, US Foodservice and the smaller fish Mongers to have them react also.
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Roll the Bones
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I have those Sea Food watch pocket brochures and use them on calls to help my Chef customers set their menu's for these very sensative issues. The PNW is very concerned about these issues, but it's the rest of our country and the world that is not so much.
Charlie
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Right on! Glad to get any help, especially from someone that "I am actually in charge of the PNW sales of Proteins which involves Seafood and in large part a huge demand for Farmed Atlantics." and "A good friend of mine is part of the Heirarchy in Houston's Seafood procurement Dept."
FYI - Sysco, FDA, Costco, FSA, Safeway, and many others - have already been contacted; however, the "more" they hear - the better! For example... it is "illegal", at this time to "import" any "farmed atlantic salmon" into the U.S., where SLICE has been used, period! It is "not" FDA listed of approved drugs! So, what is the authority for this?
I have written several articles and letters concerning this, if you would like more info, or a copy of the articles and letters (and e-mails), let me know - I'll be glad to help and provide you with information!
IronNoggin
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As with much of the process' involved Charlie, that disclosure is likely left up to the "Producer" to provide. And knowing it is "illegal" want to bet what their answer in this regard might be?
Might WELL be worth looking into from the US (importer) perspective!
More and more these "Producer's" activities are being called into question. Hoping like hell the Idiots-That-Be wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late! [xx(]
Nog
