We have an update for you...and it's going to blow you away. Click on our name and see what's really happened to wild salmon since you posted this video.
Alaska Ranched Salmon, you must be in the shirt pocket of big industry fish farms. I can't imagine why anyone would even compare wild Alaska salmon hatchery fish released into the wilds, allowed to run their natural route to their spawning grounds to farmed Atlantic salmon, raised in poo and antibiotic filled pens and then brought to market. No comparison, don't even try.
Everyone who defends farmed fish here is a corporate tool. I'm not eating meat that they have to dye to make it the same colour that it is supposed to naturally be, and you have to either be stupid or paid to think any differently, let alone the lice and pestilence these farms foster.
Ken Martin, you are a fool. With your experience you are fully aware these runs have collapsed numerous times in the past sixty years then come back in record numbers. Stop looking for a scapegoat and fess up. They collapsed in 1950 then 1958 was a record run.
Fishing families of Alaska? You mean those families that rely on farming salmon for their livelihood? It's called salmon ranching - maybe you should stop letting your ranched Alaska salmon eat every last small fish in Bering and starving out Canadian and California salmon.
I would suggest that you've let protectionism get in the way of fact.
The lice stay on the mature fish as they go up river to spawn in the fall, in the spring time the lice have long since died off and the smolts go out to sea unharmed until they grow big enough to support lice. However, with fish farms in our inlets what happen is the smolts come down river in the spring and run into a fish farm of mature salmon full of lice and they are wiped out. Fish farming would be ok if it were land based and not in open nets polluting the ocean.
fishermen have been fishing for years because there was a resource to fish. In just under 20 years that resource has been decimated by the sea lice from fish farms killing the baby salmon as they come out of the river. Sure mature salmon returning from sea have lice but they are 10 to 50 pounds and can survive the lice. The smolts however are less than a gram and two to three lice will weigh more than the smolt.
It is intersting that the commercial fishermen who have raped and pilaged the wild salmon for years are protesting the farmers. How can you save the wild salmon by eating it to extingtion? I have seen sea lice on wild salmon before fish farms (yes I am that old) and I find it interesting that Morton is targeting farmers when her funders have damged the environment for decades...hypocritical I think this is...
Why would commercial fishermen ever want to rape and pillage the greatest fishing resource in North America? I'm a commercial fisherman and I can absolutely say that every single fisherman - aboriginal and non-aboriginal are absolutely, 100% in favour of conservation and proper management. But the DFO has failed us, and failed to protect the wild stocks, instead siding with an industry that has lead to the collapse of the fishery.
Ecogirl6 you are dead on. I have seen the same and have proof that these runs were in danger as early as the forties. It is a joke that commercial fishermen cannot accept that they helped wipe out this resource. These runs have collapsed many times in for several decades
The gov't of B.C. has allowed the industry to grow significantly. We need to put a stop to fish farms. The Federal gov't and the ministry of fisheries have turned their backs on B.C.'s wild Salmon.
Get involved, be heard, stand up and fight for our wild salmon. If you won't who will?
great job Damien!
jeremyseanwilliams 4 months ago
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We have an update for you...and it's going to blow you away. Click on our name and see what's really happened to wild salmon since you posted this video.
AquacultureAwareness 1 year ago
Alaska Ranched Salmon, you must be in the shirt pocket of big industry fish farms. I can't imagine why anyone would even compare wild Alaska salmon hatchery fish released into the wilds, allowed to run their natural route to their spawning grounds to farmed Atlantic salmon, raised in poo and antibiotic filled pens and then brought to market. No comparison, don't even try.
off2fish1 1 year ago
Everyone who defends farmed fish here is a corporate tool. I'm not eating meat that they have to dye to make it the same colour that it is supposed to naturally be, and you have to either be stupid or paid to think any differently, let alone the lice and pestilence these farms foster.
FilmoreHolmes 2 years ago
Ken Martin, you are a fool. With your experience you are fully aware these runs have collapsed numerous times in the past sixty years then come back in record numbers. Stop looking for a scapegoat and fess up. They collapsed in 1950 then 1958 was a record run.
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
i think ecogirl6 is not about eco anything and may want to find her own real truth.
AnissaReed 2 years ago
Fishing families of Alaska back you one hundred percent! Fish farms are absolutely lethal to our wild salmon runs and must be stopped.
off2fish1 2 years ago
Dear off2fish1;
Fishing families of Alaska? You mean those families that rely on farming salmon for their livelihood? It's called salmon ranching - maybe you should stop letting your ranched Alaska salmon eat every last small fish in Bering and starving out Canadian and California salmon.
I would suggest that you've let protectionism get in the way of fact.
AlaskaRanchedSalmon 2 years ago
The lice stay on the mature fish as they go up river to spawn in the fall, in the spring time the lice have long since died off and the smolts go out to sea unharmed until they grow big enough to support lice. However, with fish farms in our inlets what happen is the smolts come down river in the spring and run into a fish farm of mature salmon full of lice and they are wiped out. Fish farming would be ok if it were land based and not in open nets polluting the ocean.
kerbycowan 2 years ago
hey idiot, the lice die as soon as they hit fresh water. get your facts straight
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
fishermen have been fishing for years because there was a resource to fish. In just under 20 years that resource has been decimated by the sea lice from fish farms killing the baby salmon as they come out of the river. Sure mature salmon returning from sea have lice but they are 10 to 50 pounds and can survive the lice. The smolts however are less than a gram and two to three lice will weigh more than the smolt.
kerbycowan 2 years ago
Nay to corporate plunders !
KeepEmStraight 2 years ago
It is intersting that the commercial fishermen who have raped and pilaged the wild salmon for years are protesting the farmers. How can you save the wild salmon by eating it to extingtion? I have seen sea lice on wild salmon before fish farms (yes I am that old) and I find it interesting that Morton is targeting farmers when her funders have damged the environment for decades...hypocritical I think this is...
ecogirl6 2 years ago
Why would commercial fishermen ever want to rape and pillage the greatest fishing resource in North America? I'm a commercial fisherman and I can absolutely say that every single fisherman - aboriginal and non-aboriginal are absolutely, 100% in favour of conservation and proper management. But the DFO has failed us, and failed to protect the wild stocks, instead siding with an industry that has lead to the collapse of the fishery.
saggioluno 2 years ago
Ecogirl6 you are dead on. I have seen the same and have proof that these runs were in danger as early as the forties. It is a joke that commercial fishermen cannot accept that they helped wipe out this resource. These runs have collapsed many times in for several decades
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
Amazing video Damien! See you all October third!
MissfitNikki 2 years ago
The gov't of B.C. has allowed the industry to grow significantly. We need to put a stop to fish farms. The Federal gov't and the ministry of fisheries have turned their backs on B.C.'s wild Salmon.
Get involved, be heard, stand up and fight for our wild salmon. If you won't who will?
outbackranger 2 years ago
Stop damming up our rivers in BC and get ride of the fish farms!!!
RedgyBlackout 2 years ago
a very important issue.
We must save our wild salmon for ALL our children's future ... Shame on those gutless politicians who have allowed this devastation.
FatRedeyeTreefrog 2 years ago
you rock Damien!
save the salmon!
jeremyseanwilliams 2 years ago
Yay for Wild Salmon!!
nebughey 2 years ago