Alexandra Morton, Salmon Circle Rally, Oct 3,2009

Alexandra Morton calls for placing the D.F.O. under oath and forcing it's people to come clean on why they have been allowing Norwegian Fish farms to decimate B.C.'s wild salmon runs to the point where many of the runs, including the once mighty Fraser River Sockeye run, are now at the point of complete collapse, along with the Grizzly Bears , killer whales, wolves and eagles which rely on the salmon for their existence

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• Alexandra Morton
• Raincoast Research
• Vancouver Green Olympics
• sea lice
• fish farms
• salmon
• sockeye
• Fraser River
• Salmon Circle

[cradel3]

Not only are they starving to death but their immune systems are severely compromised by PCB's and other chemicals. A recipe for disaster when there are only about *80 of these whales in the southern straits.

[cradel3]

Arch, Plankton eating Killer Whales? Are you sure? Baleen Whales eat krill and other small organisms Killer whales have big teeth for eating flesh. Resident Killer whales eat salmon and herring and gather each year in the same areas. Transients roam the coast and eat seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoise, and other whales. The seven missing resident killer whales were showing classic evidence of starvation evidenced by the syndrome called peanut head..

[cradel3]

Arch, For someone who isn't a fish farmer you are certainly writing a lot of trash justifying the industry. If all the research, the inquiries and the historical data are wrong regarding the threat presented by fish farms to wild salmon then please present your papers and the research to prove this. Otherwise one can only conclude that you are a paid fish farm greenwash shill or that eating too much toxic fish farm salmon has distorted your sense of reality

[cradel3]

Arch, Just thought I'd let you know that the migration of Grey Whales and Humpback Whales doesn't have much to do with salmon runs as these whales don't eat salmon' It's the resident Killer whales that do. Orcas follow and depend on the salmon runs. Without the salmon they starve to death as did seven whales in the southern pod last year

[cradel3]

Arch, It's so easy for you to hide in the shadows and heckle and name call better people than yourself. List the papers you've had published on this issue, the scientists who support your findings, the inquiries which concur with your recommendations. Sea lice have no choice regarding their life style but you do. If people such as yourself can stall and delay a concerted effort of mitigation in this unfolding catastrophe we may lose the salmon forever

[cradel3]

Arch, Just wanted to help you out regarding the issue. 13 carcinogenic or possibly carcinogenic organic compounds in fish farm fish. They have up to 10 times the PCB load than wild salmon. Fish farms plundering the southern oceans af small feed fish to feed the farmed fish. Fish farm treat with pesticides, fungicides, coloring chemicals and antibiotics.

All creditable research shows wherever fish farms on wild salmon routes the salmon plummet

[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 really happened to wild sockeye salmon since you posted this video.

[AquacultureAwareness]

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 on salmon farming in British Columbia.

Facts are stubborn things, aren't they.

[wobblet1]

This women is an inspiration. Anyone who has anything negative to say about her is blind. People who believe the government when they say "there is no conclusive evidence" are sheep and are too scared to stray from the flock. We all need to start standing up to the government and their greedy ways.

[sputnik306]

@ecogirl6 Maybe you should get a new mantra called research...Education..ya, you can throw enlightenment in there too. It was not just overfishing..Their is usually a few equations to do to come up with the real sum.

[sputnik306]

@cradel3 It would be kinda sweet if whales enjoyed certain politician types as appy's

[sputnik306]

@cradel3 To bad that by the time we figure out exactly what whales are thinking and saying to each other..there will only be one left..He'll have noone to complain to and he'll beach himself out of loneliness. If he had to listen to Arch I'm sure he would want to bite him.

[sputnik306]

@cradel3 Excellent reply.

[sputnik306]

@ecogirl6 Are you positive about that???

[sputnik306]

Is it simply a coincidence that this pretty well coencides with the oil rig catastrophe...or is it a huge wake up call from the Man????? I've never seen such a big STOP sign in my life.

[eilyac]

Thank you to Alexandra Morton for her work on this.