Hi Sum of Us
Thanks so much for
taking on fish farms in BC.
Send this to all
the ENGOs in BC, as well as Sportfishing BC, several Facebook pages, including
Fishers r Against Fish Farms, Alex Morton, all sport anglers (300,000
licences), the Sport Fishing Institute, the Sport Fish Advisory Board and so
on.
If you need info
let me know. For example, I have figured out that the sewage cost of fish farms
in BC is $10.4B as a conservative estimate. Fish farms kill 5.76B forage fish
to feed one harvest in an industry the size of BC’s. Their actual job numbers
are about 850, even though they and DFO claim 7,000 multiplier jobs.
FYI there are about
130 licenced sites in BC, with about 85 operating at any given time, and there
are 20, or 22, farms in the Broughton Archipelago. There is a graphic that
shows them all. Only 10 are scheduled to be out of the water in the next few
years. Clayoquot Sound is the next worst place with most wild salmon already
gone.
Thanks
DC (Dennis) Reid
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This is the note that Sum of Us has sent to those who care about wild salmon in BC:
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We can protect wild salmon
for good
-- the push to ban fish farms is working, with phase-outs happening
across the BC coast.
Sign today to finally ban
open-net fish farms threatening wild salmon in BC.
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DC,
We could be on the brink of seeing the end
of salmon farms in BC, with 17 banned at the end of last year.
But there are still
over 30 more open-net farms that are threatening wild salmon
populations with parasites and disease.
Timing
is critical to ban the destructive
open-net farms before the next migration season. We need to prevent wild
salmon from being contaminated with sea lice and deadly viruses from fish
farms.
Pressure
is mounting from all sides as the
Federal fisheries minister pushes to take a more precautionary approach to
fish farms. If we
all work together we can ensure we keep his feet to the fire and protect
the wild salmon for good.
Wild
Pacific salmon populations have been in decline for decades, and fish farms
are making it worse. For too
many years, open-net fish farms have been polluting the marine environment
and failing to control the spread of piscine orthoreovirus (a super
infectious virus found in both farmed and wild salmon), as well as other
diseases like sea lice, which attach to young wild salmon on their
migration out to sea and threaten their survival.
Despite the
well-documented risks associated with open net-cage farms, there are over 50 of them along
the BC coast, polluting the surrounding water and seabed with waste,
chemicals, diseases and parasites. After the Dzawada'enuxw
First Nation sued the Federal Government in December, all 17 fish farms in
British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago will either be closed or
relocated. Fisheries will need to get First Nations communities’ consent to
operate within their territory, as well as the approval from Fisheries and
Oceans Canada that these operations do not threaten wild Pacific salmon.
With these new
developments, now is the time to act and call on the Federal government to
completely ban open-net fish farms on the West Coast, and prevent fisheries
from exploiting people and the planet for their profit.
We’ve fought and won
these battles before. When disgusting footage shot by Tavis Campbell was
released, over 26,000 members like you rallied for change. Because of the
response, the federal Fisheries minister announced a complete review of the
Fisheries Act and put in more protection for wild salmon.
We know
that people power has worked to protect wild salmon before and now it's
time to come together again and ban fish farms once and for all.
Thanks for all that you
do,
Amelia, Angus, Lisa and the team at SumOfUs
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