Sea lice may be driving wild salmon to extinction

[Folkboat11]

The Pacific Salmon Forum PSF - a non-biased scientific body ordered to look into the sea lice issue found that the studies Morton was citing (her own), were incorrect. Co-author Marty Krkosek agreed. Morton and Krkosek were asked to “recalibrate”. She concluded that “the survival of the pink salmon cohort was not statistically different from a reference region without salmon farms.” That’s right – no extinction. Not even a difference.

[pkrishnametal]

hi, is the wild salmon of North Pacific Ocean affected from the radiation of the nuclear plants

[AquacultureAwareness]

@pkrishnametal no

[AquacultureAwareness]

It's now 2010!!!

We have an update for you...and it's going to blow you away. Click on our name and see what's happened since you posted this video on salmon in British Columbia.

[crampedu2]

It's 2010.

British Columbia had record returns of pink salmon last year (2009).

This year (2010) BC has record returns of sockeye salmon (highest return in 100 years) and great returns of pink and King salmon too.

Extinction?? Yeah right.

Say hello to these "scientists" the next time your at McDonalds.

[Alaskrab]

@crampedu2 These runs will crash again within the next couple of years - garanteed. Your "scientists" from the DFO are a joke and can't even begin to figure out what any of these fish are doing and why.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab Finally we can agree on something. The runs will crash and the runs will come back. This has been known since the late 1800's. This also is why Alaska Farms/Ranches and Canada does the same.

[Alaskrab]

Quit playing on thed computer and get back to work fish farmer! Your comments might help change people's view on disease ridden farmed ATLANTIC salmon in BC, but people love WILD Alaskan salmon - whether it was in a hatchery for a few months and released into the wild with the rest of its Pacific family or not. You're wasting your time! Get back to work!

[Alaskrab]

@Folkboat11 Quit playing on thed computer and get back to work fish farmer! Your comments might help change people's view on disease ridden farmed ATLANTIC salmon in BC, but people love WILD Alaskan salmon - whether it was in a hatchery for a few months and released into the wild with the rest of its Pacific family or not. You're wasting your time! Get back to work!

Alaskrab 1 second ago

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab The only reason Alaska raises salmon in hatchery factory farms, is because your so called wild salmon fishery was Never Sustainable. Just be proud you still have a job because of the farming up in Alaska.

[Alaskrab]

My job gillnetting in Bristol Bay has 0% hatchery influence. So my job has nothing to do with hatcheries. Also, I fish 7 - 8 months out of the year. Salmon supplies about 20% of my income - if that. The rest comes from cod fishing - a booming fishery for the past 200 years. Again, you're talking out of your ass - idiot. I sincerely apologize for making you look so stupid all of the time. If your family is reading this too - tell them that there's still hope for you if you keep your mind open.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab Wave the Red White and Blue my friend. Keep on waving.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab you brought up Salmon Anemia? Here it is called Marine Anemia. Also there is Bacterial Kidney Disease, Loma, Setticemia, Vibrio, and IHN, ect, that is carried by free range stolks of salmon and many pacific fish species. I hope farmed salmon in Alaska are tested for these diseases prior to release as our smolts are tested prior to salt water disease free entry. also do you test your fish prior to market? We do.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab So when do you want to meet? Drop outs like you do not scare me at all. Keep it up little big man :) ... Game on,,, Dip shit...

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab Well tough guy? Did mommy put you to bed for the night?

[crampedu2]

@Alaskrab Like Folkboat11 says...salmon runs are cyclical. They have booms and busts - that is natures way (except for the 'crash' in Alaska in the '60s - that was overfishing). Well done on finally figuring out population dynamics Alaska guy with krabs.

[rockers213]

men that man at 0:10 dose not know what his doing

[CommonSenseCanadian]

Watch this empowering video on the movement to save wild salmon from the impacts of open net salmon farms in BC, Canada. Youtube search: Triumphant Victoria Finale for Salmon Migration

[Folkboat11]

@CommonSenseCanadian It is to sad you cut comments from people that dont agree with you CommonSenseCanadian. it seems you have been Americanized.

[Folkboat11]

@CommonSenseCanadian Since you block people from commenting on your site, I have a question for you on this one. you said "I'm arguing for the removal of open net salmon farms from our coast. Plain and simple". Do you think the same about the 1.5 billion salmon Alaska farms and holds in open net pens for up to 12 months?

[Folkboat11]

@CommonSenseCanadian Google"A charity with plenty of very long tentacles". We are being Americanized, and you wont beleive who are in their pockets.

"They are de facto political organizations in B.C.," he says. "They're distorting the balance of power where a few people control these huge amounts of money that flow in from the U.S." And, he believes the growing impact of environmental groups is only hurting British Columbia's economic potential".

[Folkboat11]

Just another wild salmon good and farmed salmon bad add. Alaska has been dumping millions of salmon that have been raised in plastic trays, pellet fed, vaccinated, held in open net pens for up to 12 months into the pacific. Our BC wild salmon have to compete for the same food source. Is there enough to go around? Some think not.

[gladheateher4now]

NOOTKA= current slice applications ( additives to kill lice) are NOt working and most of the juvies are coated. Adults are averaging 12 lice PER FISH ! We are going to see the END of salmon in our life time. Sockeye are already going thre the same problems. heres the worst part,Governement people are turning a blind eye.

[thirdexodus2008]

I am a fish biologist. Bio control can be used to combat this.

[Casper48022]

can sea lice live in fresh water?.. salmon can.. maybe farmers can blast the salmon farms with fresh water and kill off the lice?.. dunno, just an idea..

[frewcc]

@Casper48022 no but it wont kill them instantly they have to be in it and surrounded by it for a long time. just spraying them with fresh water wont kill them. people cant live under water but you can spray people with water and they wont die.

[SalmonSlayer1991]

ummm these sea lice only live on one host fish and thats salmon the ones your talking about jump like mad when you flip a log on the beach am i right?

[dbootsthediva]

Sea lice or perhaps a lilttle help from mankind of a splice n dice of a lice species? Interesting video

[superbacon321]

lol your the chick who doesnt know about light refraction LOL

[TheMyfancypants]

I don't think so.........

[dantae666]

dump the sea farms eat only wild and if you cant afford it have something else you dont have to eat fish

[TheMyfancypants]

Wild fish were already endangered in the fifties. You are proposing continuing to harvest an endangered species. it is people like you who are the problem.

[mickanelawd]

Know i know why my pubes were soo itchy after i went swimming in the sea!

[schmarly2007]

New study - Brooks and Jones (2008) disagrees with this videos assumptions. Twenty top fisheries scientists conclude that pink salmon not at risk of extinction and calls into question how this original study actually passed the peer review process. Maybe a new video should be produced to include this important information?

[Drywalle]

You dont know what your talking about! you are a fish farming trader and i think u need to take a bucket and hook up an IV to your self and drane all your blood so you know how it feels or eat a bowl full of slice and see how u feel

[bubukittee24]

Remember he said the salmon population was already decreasing. Thats because of man made damns and fishing industries that drag their nets along the bottom killing the kelp forests and anything else in their paths.

[dzaeman]

seriously a close system is a must....

[crampedu2]

why?

[DeimosSaturn]

Isn't this the plot of Cloverfield?

[RobotsAreHereNow]

some of my friends work for these industries ,sea lice are a big problem for years

some people think building farms on land would be the way to go.

[revjimbob]

Surely the fish would die?

[bitRAKE]

salmon is so tasty!