[BCFSN] [IFS] Fwd: Escaped Atlantics : One more nail....

Thu Aug 24 01:36:57 EDT 2017

.... soooooooooo sad.................
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Dawn Morrison <dmo6842 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: leanne hodges <artist.westcoastwild.com at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:34 PM
> Subject: Escaped Atlantics : One more nail....
> To: landwatch <landwatch at npogroups.org>, Primejustin trudeau <
> justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca>, "min at dfo-mpo.gc.ca" <min at dfo-mpo.gc.ca>, Prem
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> tbsef at bucksuzuki.org, Elena Edwards <oceananele at hotmail.com>,
> info at livingoceans.org, Clayoquot Action <dan at clayoquotaction.org>,
> Dana at aboriginalbc.com, Garry Henkel <aboriginaljourneys at hotmail.com>
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> *ROAR ! 305,000 escaped exotic Atlantic salmon ….. ….now spreading
> pathogens around the Salish Sea.  One more nail in the coffin of wild
> salmon and coastal marine ecosystems !*
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> *STOP killing our coast !* Transition to land just like the 1998
> Displaced Fishers / Wild Salmon Revitalization Initiative partnership with
> HRDC and UFAWU providing Skills and Retraining…. and transition to land
> immediately !
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> 1995 - 1997 : As a former contracted fisheries guardian and contractor we
> observed escaped Atlantics in the fishing fleets seine nets, gutted them to
> find they were indeed eating our wild species
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> 1993 : Adult Atlantics harassing our Wild Salmon on their reads on
> Clayoquot to consume wild Chinook eggs.
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> 1998: Dr Volpe conducts a study on the Englishman River with Wild Pacific
> Salmon and Atlantics in a controlled setting to see if hybridization could
> happen. He personally told me, " Over the few days we saw some strong
> indicators that the breeding stock of both species were definitely
> interested in each other. “
>
> 1998 to 2005ish : We had a Coho Enumeration contract to introduce a new
> methodology for assessing Coho population through fry indices coast wide.
> These indices covered the coast from Desolation Sound to the Klemtu area.
> We used barrier nets to create a repeatable indices for a three pass
> removal to capture what Coho fry were present. In that process I found
> Atlantic Fry and smolts.
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> The Canadian Department of Federal Fisheries is acting in Conflict Of
> Interest by promoting and marketing Open Net Salmon Feedlots while killing
> wild salmon and marine ecosystem they are mandated to protect !
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> Canada’s Violations of the Fisheries Act and NAAEC by Allowing British
> Columbia Salmon Feedlots to Degrade Wild Salmon Habitat
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> quote " Despite mounting evidence of harm to British Columbia’s wild
> salmon runs and severe threats to wild salmon in Canada and the United
> States, Canada has permitted more than 100 commercial salmon feedlots to
> operate in the narrow migration routes used by wild salmon of British
> Columbia and the United States, including the Fraser River, exposing wild
> salmon to amplified levels of parasites such as sea lice, viral and
> bacterial diseases, toxic chemicals and concentrated waste. Canada’s
> apparent violations of its own Fisheries Act are allowing commercial salmon
> feedlots to erode the capacity of the British Columbia ecosystem to support
> wild salmon. The potential for British Columbia salmon feedlots to
> introduce, amplify and spread pathogens also jeopardizes the health of
> every other wild salmon run along the Pacific Coast, as well as the entire
> West Coast salmon fishing industry, because these stocks co-mingle.
> http://www.cec.org/sites/default/files/submissions/2011_
> 2015/15786_12-1-sub_en.pdf photo Alex Morton
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> Recent escapement ~ http://www.seattletimes.com/
> seattle-news/environment/oops-after-accidental-release-of-at
> lantic-salmon-fisherman-being-told-catch-as-many-as-you-
> want/?utm_content=buffer53544&utm_medium=social&utm_source=
> facebook.com&utm_campaign=owned_buffer_f_m
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> Leanne Hodges ~ REFORMED contracted fisheries guardian
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> Flipping Heck
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> http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/oops-af
> ter-accidental-release-of-atlantic-salmon-fisherman-being-
> told-catch-as-many-as-you-want/?utm_content=buffer53544&
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