Wild Salmon Circle & Oct. 3 Rally!

Join the Wild Salmon Circle for a massive public rally in Vancouver on Oct. 3 at 1 PM at the Art Gallery downtown. Hear from expert speakers like biologist Alexandra Morton, Chief Bob Chamberlin, and representatives from the wilderness tourism industry, and commercial and sports fisheries about what needs to be done to save wild salmon in BC - plus info, music, and fun for the whole family! The Wild Salmon Circle is citizens' group recently formed to build a large-scale public movement to protect one of BC's most treasured and vital resources - wild salmon - from fish farms and other impacts. WildSalmonCircle.com

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[jeremyseanwilliams]

great job Damien!



[off2fish1]

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.

[FilmoreHolmes]

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.

[TheMyfancypants]

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]

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]

hey idiot, the lice die as soon as they hit fresh water. get your facts straight

[AnissaReed]

i think ecogirl6 is not about eco anything and may want to find her own real truth.

[AlaskaRanchedSalmon]

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.

[off2fish1]

Fishing families of Alaska back you one hundred percent! Fish farms are absolutely lethal to our wild salmon runs and must be stopped.

[kerbycowan]

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.