Sea lice may be driving wild salmon to extinction

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Sea lice on fish farms are affecting wild salmon populations on Canada's west coast.

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[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.

[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?

[AquacultureAwareness]

@pkrishnametal no

[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

[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]

@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?

[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]

@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.

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