There is evidence that disease from the 70+ salmon farms on the
migration route of Fraser sockeye represents the perhaps the biggest
threat to our wild fish.This film illustrates the basic dynamics of
salmon migration routes, diseases in farms and our governments role in
the depletion of our most precious resource. produced by volunteer
efforts. For more films visit CallingfromtheCoast.com. For Information
on how to participate visit : SalmonAreSacred.org
Article in the Calgary Herald. “Growing up, [Alexandra] Morton was fascinated by animal communication. But the only woman scientist role model she knew of was Madame Curie. And the stark photos of Curie surrounded by test tubes in an early 20th century laboratory petrified the young Morton, who dreamed of working in the wild.” Read article
Article by Tyee Bridge in BC Business. “The DFO is the federal government bureaucracy that presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod. Overharvesting by Canadian fleets ultimately cost taxpayers $3.9 billion in support to Newfoundland and Labrador for cod-licence buyouts, regional assistance and job retraining between 1992 – the year the cod population hit bottom and the fishery was closed – and 2007.” Read article
Article by D.C. Reid in the Times Colonist. “In 2008, volcano, Kasatochi, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, blew its top and ash drifted out over a large area of the North Pacific Ocean.
Within a few days, the largest bloom of phytoplankton ever observed spread across more than 1,000 kilometres of surface water.” Read article
Article by Mark Hume in the Globe and Mail.
Jim Cooperman, President of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society: “There aren’t many places where you can see a mass migration. There’s wildebeest in East Africa, monarch butterflies [in Mexico], there’s the caribou migration in the Arctic, but other than that there aren’t too many places that are comparable.
“The Adams is a natural wonder, a treasure, and we should really be treating the salmon better.”
Article by Tyler Olsen in the Chilliwack Times. “The Salmon Are Sacred trip has space for 160 paddlers. Already, local First Nations Chiefs, politicians from a range of parties, and impassioned activists like Alexandra Morton, have pledged their participation.” Read article
Article by Barry Estabrook in The Atlantic. “Joshua Goldman, working in the unlikely setting of a collection of warehouse-like buildings in an industrial park near an airport in Turners Falls, a village in western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, is attempting to undo fish farming’s fundamental wrong turn.” Read article
In mid-September, Damien Gillis had the rare privilege to capture this year’s astonishing sockeye fishery, off the south arm of the Fraser River. Amidst the largest Fraser sockeye return in nearly a century – some 35 million fish – Damien caught up with the commercial seine boat Snow Queen, hard at work. During one of the last openings of the season, Gillis documented the “set” of a lifetime for Captain Mitch Ponak and his crew: over 35,000 sockeye in one seine. It’s all covered here in vivid detail in this entertaining 6 min video.
Much has been said about this year’s unanticipated sockeye return – including erroneous claims from the fish farm industry that it somehow “proves” open net salmon farms aren’t adversely impacting wild salmon; if anything, it has raised more questions than it has answered. On this sunny September day, however, these amazing sockeye were a welcome sight and reminder of what healthy wild salmon runs mean to the communities, cultures, and economies of the entire BC coast and province – and of why we should be doing everything in our power to give these fish a fighting chance.
In mid-September, Damien Gillis had the rare privilege to capture this year’s astonishing sockeye fishery, off the south arm of the Fraser River. Amidst the largest Fraser sockeye return in nearly a century – some 35 million fish – Damien caught up with the commercial seine boat Snow Queen, hard at work. During one of the last openings of the season, Gillis documented the “set” of a lifetime for Captain Mitch Ponak and his crew: over 35,000 sockeye in one seine. It’s all covered here in vivid detail in this entertaining 6 min video.
Much has been said about this year’s unanticipated sockeye return – including erroneous claims from the fish farm industry that it somehow “proves” open net salmon farms aren’t adversely impacting wild salmon; if anything, it has raised more questions than it has answered. On this sunny September day, however, these amazing sockeye were a welcome sight and reminder of what healthy wild salmon runs mean to the communities, cultures, and economies of the entire BC coast and province – and of why we should be doing everything in our power to give these fish a fighting chance.