Wild Salmon Circle Rally During Games

Highlights from the Wild Salmon Circle's recent rally for wild salmon at Vancouver's Vanier Park on Feb 20, during the Olympics. Part of a series of initiatives to reach out to people of Norway through the media in town for the Games (92% of BC's salmon farms are Norwegian-owned). Featuring Otto Langer, Chief Bob Chamberlin, and Don Staniford of the global Pure Salmon Campaign.

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[MrJimjj]

You know what I think Overfishing has done the most damage, but since you can't yell or point fingers at boats you can't see or at the enviroment you point the fingers at what you can only see which is salmon companies. I just bought salmon yesterday wild that is. I think this is overblown sorry. Having said this if they prove that salmon companies are the sole cause then by all means do something about it put them on land or whatever. But until that happens innocent until proven guilty. OK

[CommonSenseCanadian]

Your wild salmon likely came from Alaska or Russia, where they don't have farms, but do have wild salmon in relative plenitude. And you can't tell everything you need to know about the state of the environment from what you buy at Superstore...And I don't disagree that poor fisheries management has been a major historical cause of the decline of our wild salmon populations. Good point.

[MrJimjj]

You took a comment down? Let me get this straight the pinks were huge returns in the year 2000, with the farms being there for years prior all is good then they crash in 2003 and its salmon companies fault. I don't get your reasoning to me that seems like a blatant contridiction. I looked at metric tonnes #'s farmed back then and now ,and the difference from 2000 to 2008 was roughly the same. Sorry i agree to do something about it, but with solid PROOF, many holes in these accuisations.

[CommonSenseCanadian]

See my comment below on this. The farms were much smaller prior to 2000; as they got bigger, the lice problem exploded, until you had near total collapse in the 2003-2004 timeframe. Remember pinks are a two year fish, so there's a bit of a delay factor from the time of the infestation to the time a returning run collapses. This timeline coincides with the massive expansion of the farms (as I noted earlier below, I mean the number of fish in each farm). There is no such thing as PROOF in science.

[CommonSenseCanadian]

AJK847 asked about high pink returns in 2000. Broughton did have an exceptional return of pinks in 2000. Fishermen took about 3 million and the same amount went into the rivers. It's just part of the natural variability of pinks before farms - which started with about 125,000 fish/farm. In 1995 the NDP put a moratorium on farms (the number of famrs, not the amount if fish in them) So there were increasingly more fish/farm. This appears to have triggered the lice to explode in subsequent yrs.

[MrJimjj]

I heard that Alice Morton doesn't have the credintials she claims she does. You can;t call yourself a bioligist without a PHD is this true? I heard she does independant studies, is this what your talking about , does she run web site and if so does she show her credentials on that site. I am wondering because i hear different stories.

[CommonSenseCanadian]

There are many great biologists without phD's. Alex has been working in the field for decades and her methods are recognized around the world - including by the most rigorous scientific journals, incl. Science. Her research has been jointly conducted with many top fisheries phD's including Drs. John Volpe, Larry Dill, and Martin Krkosek. Her findings are confirmed by countless global papers - from Norway to Ireland to Chile. By independent I mean not working for the government or industry.

[pkrishnametal]

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

[mooneez]

@ MrJimjj:

NOT OK.

you can't even spell biologist so your opinion is worthless. FYI, the precautionary principle is the OPPOSITE of 'innocent until proven guilty'... to wait & see with some things as important as the environment we all require to sustain our lives... given the pace of new patents & shifts in business practices would be suicidal. and that is proveable. but 9/11? wtf? where are you coming from really, "mr. i just joined youtube 2 days ago & im only commenting on this video"?

[MrArchiebarker]

Not true.

[MrJimjj]

I can't believe all that though popular science also said that 911 was a conspiracy myth but i think everyone knows better than that. Either way i hope this gets resolved, sad to see so much fighting amonst people.

[MrJimjj]

Well that's good to know, but she shouldn't call herself a bioligist then, without a degree just my opinion, so really she is a studier of her area and knows it well, if she has schooling she should post it somewhere to help her image i think. These groups recognise her though that's good