Megan Adams's blog
See below for a slideshow of the best-of-the-best photos of our journey along the Get Out Migration. Many thanks to everyone who contributed photos and to the Artist Response Team for the final song.
Hello All,
Just a little notice: we are doing some website reorganizing to transition away from the Get Out Migration into new actions and developments within the salmon farming issue. We appreciate your patience and hope that we can bring some more clarity through our efforts!
Megan
From today's Straight www.straight.com
By Randy Christensen and David Lane
The way the B.C. government and the province’s fish farm industry do business you’d expect them to be guarding nuclear secrets, not salmon tissue samples.
Yet, time and time again, they break out the cloak and dagger routine, twisting themselves up in knots to prevent industry information—specifically about disease and sea lice infestations on farms—from being made public.
The question is why?
Why don’t B.C. salmon farmers—who get taxpayer money through government subsidies—want the public to know what diseases are on their farms?
"The B.C. government's continued protection of industry interests at the expense of the public's right to know is simply inexplicable."
Below is a press release from Ecojustice, expressing their concerns with the newly proposed Federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations:
VANCOUVER - The B.C salmon farm industry's decision to not co-operate with provincial reporting strategies has rendered government officials impotent and incapable of regulating the notoriously secretive industry, environmental groups Ecojustice and T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation said today.
As of April 1, 2010, salmon farms have refused to volunteer or make available tissue samples for government fish health and sea lice monitoring audits, proving the complete failure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands' voluntary compliance strategy.
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