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Everyone Loves Wild Salmon, Don't They?

Alexandra's blog

Tribute to The Wild Salmon People

December 8, 2011 by Alexandra

Watch a slideshow from Alexandra Morton as a tribute to the movement to protect wild Pacific salmon from the threats posed by salmon farms. 

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The slideshow features the Wild Salmon People:



Urgent Action Required to Identify and Contain Spread of Infectious Salmon Anemia

November 10, 2011 by Alexandra

Wild salmon advocates are demanding the Governments of Canada and British Columbia take urgent action to discover the extent of the presence of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) in wild salmon, herring and trout in BC waters.  The response given at a press conference held by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, BC and Canada, Monday, November 8 was unsatisfactory in that the officials continue to send a message that “inconclusive” tests on wild salmon samples must be interpreted as “negative.” Officials also failed to confirm that they are sending workers out into the rivers and streams to collect more samples.
 
The following steps must be taken immediately by DFO (Canada) and British Columbia:
 
1)Test all Atlantic salmon farms for ISAv.  
2) Test all pacific salmon hatcheries; the upcoming brood stock should be sampled at egg-take.

Dear Minister of Fisheries

March 7, 2011 by Alexandra

Dear Minister of Fisheries

Dear Minister Shea

I continue to be concerned that Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) has been introduced to British Columbia marine waters in any of the millions of Atlantic salmon eggs that have been imported into BC. Canada reports animal diseases to the World Animal Health Information Database run by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) The OIE website publishes these reports.

Why hasn’t Canada made an ISA status report to the OIE since the first reporting period of 2010? (see screen shot “Reporting History”)

What province/s reported “suspect” ISA cases in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010? See screen attached shots.

Global State of Salmon Feedlots

January 20, 2011 by Alexandra

Global State of Salmon Feedlots
 
While the politics of salmon feedlots are murky, it is clear they have altered the biology of coastlines worldwide. Large schools of salmon are no longer migrating. Predators are no longer culling the diseased.  Young wild salmon are no longer shielded from the diseases of their parents and bacteria.  Viruses and parasites are free to become more virulent, because farm salmon hosts never survive to maturity - they are slaughtered (Pulkkinen et al. 2010).
 
Ecosystems are powerful machines running on sun and water. Diseases are the long arm of nature’s law – shutting down organisms that disrupt the natural order life on earth depends on.
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