Namgis First Nation-grown closed-containment salmon ready for market (Photo: Kuterra.com) Part 2 of DC Reid’s appeal to Canadian Senator and Olympic hero Nancy Greene Raine, who recently came out in support of a massive increase to open net pen salmon farms on BC’s coast. Read part 1 here. While Nancy
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The Common Sense Canadian: Nancy Greene Raine: Fish Farms? What About Wild BC Salmon?
Senator Nancy Greene at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics (Photo: Wikipedia) I almost fell off my chair when I read that former Olypmic ski champion and Canadian Senator Nancy Greene Raine wants to triple the size of fish farming in BC. Taking such a position is badly out of step with
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fisheries Minister’s weak response to Cohen Commission petition
Fisheries Minister Gail Shea thinks everything is A-ok with DFO (Chris Wattie/Reuters) I registered the first Environmental Petition (a protocol, not list of names) on the Cohen Report with the federal Auditor General late last fall, and have received the first reply from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). My request
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fish farm sewage: DFO expansions cost you money
Yardstick standing upright in waste layer below a Nova Scotia fish farm – up to 32 inch mark. (Photo:Kathy and Dave Brush – Friends of Port Mouton Bay) The response to the Cohen Report in DFO’s Ottawa is zero, but in BC it is huge. The petition against allowing
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: European Commission wades into war over Galway salmon farm
Anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford presents to the European Commission last week (courtesy of Don Staniford) Read this Feb. 26 story from the Irish Examiner on the battle over open net pen salmon farms that has now reached the European Commission, with allegations of a buried report highlighting serious risks to wild fish
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Group calls on Harper govt to implement Salmon Inquiry’s recommendations
Watch this video produced by Watershed Watch Conservation Society on the largest investigation into missing salmon in Canadian history – the $26 million Cohen Commission – and the groups and individuals battling to hold the Harper government to account on addressing the Judicial Inquiry’s findings. Watershed Watch, along with SOS Marine
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Salmon farm solidarity rally – Feb 17, Vancouver
Chief Bob Chamberlin of the Kwicksutaineuk-ah-kwaw-ah-mish First Nation in BC’s Broughton Archipelago. The Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw people are fighting Fish Farm expansion on their territories on BC’s Coast. Come show solidarity and support to fight the proliferation of these damaging practices. Fish farms affect all nations who depend on salmon runs
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Salmon farms net more tax dollars from Harper Govt to grow exports
CAMPBELL RIVER, Canada – The federal government is giving $21,000 to British Columbia salmon farmers to research best practices around the world, more than a year after a $26-million public inquiry made a litany of recommendations. Conservative MP John Duncan says the funds will allow the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Salmon farms get tax dollars for dead fish, provide few jobs
I now have reliable figures on slaughtered fish payments of your taxpayer dollars to billion dollar Norwegian derivative fish farms in BC, and others across Canada. Cermaq Mainstream, Marine Harvest and Grieg Seafood may be happy to hear I will eat some crow, as the BC figures are much lower
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Morton: Marine Harvest lists on NYSE as Harper govt plans salmon farm expansion
In a blog posting today, independent salmon biologist Alexandra Morton calls attention to the recent listing of Norway-based Marine Harvest – the world’s largest salmon farming company – on the New York Stock Exchange. The move comes on the heels of the revelation that the Harper Government is planning a major expansion of open
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Chief sees major salmon farm expansion on horizon – issues urgent plea to “lock arms”
The chief of a coastal First Nation issued an urgent plea via youtube yesterday for public support in blocking plans for a major expansion of open-net pen salmon farms in his territory. “We’re all aware of the oil and gas pipelinesand the potential this has to lay waste to the environment,”
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fisheries minister responds to salmon farm concerns…sort of
A month ago, I suggested my Times-Colonist readers send notes to Minster Gail Shea regarding DFO’s lack of response to the $26 M, 1,200 page, 75 recommendation Cohen Commission Report. Many of us received stock letters. Let me walk you through it. Shea: Thank you for your correspondence of October 30,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Canada taken to court over approval of GMO farmed salmon
Comparison between fast-growing Aquabounty farmed salmon and regular farmed salmon (Aquabounty) Read this Jan 20 story from sustainablepulse.com on a legal challenge led by law firm Ecojustice and several Canadian environmental groups over the federal government’s approval of controversial GMO farmed salmon. Environmental groups want a court to decide if
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper Government quietly mulls BC salmon farm expansion
An open-net pen salmon farm in BC’s Broughton Archipelago (Damien Gillis) Read this Jan. 15 Vancouver Sun story by Peter O’Neil on a series of new fish farm applications for BC’s coast being quietly reviewed by the Harper Government. OTTAWA — The Harper government has quietly opened the door to a major
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Canadian taxpayers bail out Norwegian fish farms for diseased fish
The only thing keeping profits afloat for a number of Norwegian salmon farms in Canada is the hundreds of millions of dollars they net from taxpayers when their fish die of disease. You might think the multi-billion dollar fish farm industry was a licence to print money. You’d be almost
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper govt extends salmon farm moratorium in BC, critics say DFO ignoring Cohen recommendations
VANCOUVER – Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says she will not lift the moratorium on aquaculture development in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands for the foreseeable future. The announcement came Wednesday, almost a year after Justice Bruce Cohen released his report into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Cohen Commission on salmon: a year later and nothing from DFO
Alexandra Morton with yellow salmon on Mountain Bar, Fraser River (Morton facebook page – Oct. 5) You may have thought the Cohen report on collapsing Fraser River sockeye was a stone dropped through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), leaving not a ripple. You’d be right. Google DFO Cohen
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