Memo to Norway: We see you.
Thursday/12 November 2009
Good news in an
email from Alexandra Morton regarding our collective efforts to get
a Judicial Inquiry into the disappearance of the Fraser River
Sockeye Salmon:
"The Terms of the Judicial Inquiry called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper into the demise of the Fraser sockeye are both sweeping and specific enough to get to the bottom of what happened to the Fraser sockeye and recommend the changes to how Fisheries and Oceans Canada is run to benefit all wild fish in Canada. We have made HUGE progress!"
Before you grab that cocktail, organic olives and all, read Alexandra's blog to get the fine print and some additional details. Do take a moment to relish the satisfaction of progress made, then roll up those sleeves. The heavy lifting is just beginning.
Most of the salmon farms on the coast of British Columbia are Norwegian-owned. Their presence is indicated by altered sea water resulting in nasty abnormalities like algae blooms, clouds of sea lice, beds of shellfish covered in salmon feces and mixing of Altlantic and BC salmon stocks, potentially eliminating the BC salmon as a unique species. The list goes on.
Farmed fish require other ocean life as part of their diet. Take krill for instance. Some whales live on krill and yet it is being harvested as feed for fish farms which places the farms and ultimately, farmed-fish eaters, in direct competition with the largest mamals on the planet, mamals with brains larger than a carload of humans. Some farmed salmon are allegedly being fed Pacific salmon fry. Now that's dirty, dirty business if true.
Alexandra's blog and Adopt-A-Fry are full of information and have links to info sources elsewhere. The first battle is the battle for our minds. The pat denials by fish farming interests, the incomplete science and the oh so reasonably sounding spin doctors are no more than slick attempts to delude us.
Thinking independently ain't a bad idea.
Land-lubbers note this: Land life will perish when the ocean ecology collapses. Just mentioning it. Just saying ...
A bit of context: The same Norwegian companies that run the eco-ruinous fishfarm operations in BC are doing the same to pristine coastal marine ecosystems around the world, Europe, South America. They aren't picking on BC alone. I was in Ireland a couple of years ago. The only fish we could buy was farmed fish, and as it turns out, the farmed fishing ops over there helped to wipe out the coastal ecologies of that area too.
It is not just individuals who are shareholders in these fishfarms. The Norwegian Government itself is a major shareholder!! And here I thought they were so enlightened, what with their aggressive work on CO2 reduction and all. I thought they were out to save the atmosphere and the oceans, and now I find out that they're tearing away at the thoroughly pummelled oceanic ecosystem, and not just by killing whales.
Memo to Norway: We see you.
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There's a new documentary vid by Canadian filmmaker, Damien Gillis. It's called Farmed Salmon Exposed. Check out the site. Here's the trailer:
"The Terms of the Judicial Inquiry called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper into the demise of the Fraser sockeye are both sweeping and specific enough to get to the bottom of what happened to the Fraser sockeye and recommend the changes to how Fisheries and Oceans Canada is run to benefit all wild fish in Canada. We have made HUGE progress!"
Before you grab that cocktail, organic olives and all, read Alexandra's blog to get the fine print and some additional details. Do take a moment to relish the satisfaction of progress made, then roll up those sleeves. The heavy lifting is just beginning.
Most of the salmon farms on the coast of British Columbia are Norwegian-owned. Their presence is indicated by altered sea water resulting in nasty abnormalities like algae blooms, clouds of sea lice, beds of shellfish covered in salmon feces and mixing of Altlantic and BC salmon stocks, potentially eliminating the BC salmon as a unique species. The list goes on.
Farmed fish require other ocean life as part of their diet. Take krill for instance. Some whales live on krill and yet it is being harvested as feed for fish farms which places the farms and ultimately, farmed-fish eaters, in direct competition with the largest mamals on the planet, mamals with brains larger than a carload of humans. Some farmed salmon are allegedly being fed Pacific salmon fry. Now that's dirty, dirty business if true.
Alexandra's blog and Adopt-A-Fry are full of information and have links to info sources elsewhere. The first battle is the battle for our minds. The pat denials by fish farming interests, the incomplete science and the oh so reasonably sounding spin doctors are no more than slick attempts to delude us.
Thinking independently ain't a bad idea.
Land-lubbers note this: Land life will perish when the ocean ecology collapses. Just mentioning it. Just saying ...
A bit of context: The same Norwegian companies that run the eco-ruinous fishfarm operations in BC are doing the same to pristine coastal marine ecosystems around the world, Europe, South America. They aren't picking on BC alone. I was in Ireland a couple of years ago. The only fish we could buy was farmed fish, and as it turns out, the farmed fishing ops over there helped to wipe out the coastal ecologies of that area too.
It is not just individuals who are shareholders in these fishfarms. The Norwegian Government itself is a major shareholder!! And here I thought they were so enlightened, what with their aggressive work on CO2 reduction and all. I thought they were out to save the atmosphere and the oceans, and now I find out that they're tearing away at the thoroughly pummelled oceanic ecosystem, and not just by killing whales.
Memo to Norway: We see you.
****
There's a new documentary vid by Canadian filmmaker, Damien Gillis. It's called Farmed Salmon Exposed. Check out the site. Here's the trailer:
