Rafe Mair on Alex Morton's Historic Walk for Wild Salmon

On the eve of the kick-off of the "Get Out Migration", Rafe Mair wishes Alex Morton Godspeed and urges all British Colombians to join her on her historic trek down Vancouver Island. The march - departing from northern Vancouver Island on April 22 and winding up in Victoria on May 8 - is intended to rally the public and send a message to governments that it's time to remove open net salmon farms from BC's coast and help save our embattled wild salmon. Visit SalmonAreSacred.org for more info.

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[CommonSenseCanadian]

Why don't you ask her? this video page belongs to The Common Sense Canadian.

[schmarly2007]

@CommonSenseCanadian Love it. When you're out of smart things to say, you resort to "industry hack". Rafe, your time is up - and given your age and blood pressure, I mean that, literally.

[Saltwaterfarmer]

@CommonSenseCanadian I thought that was funny. You can dish it out.

You don't like to hear the other side of the story???

Doesn't seem very cool to badmouth something you know very little about without getting all sides.

[fleetyabas]

@ cromiess Morton hasn't been quiet at all. Take your head out of your ass and try to keep up.

[cromiess]

Alexandra.....you have been so quiet lately. Why?

[nuffzed]

To be accurate in my previous post I should have said, "...predictable LAME response...

[nuffzed]

DFO announces it will hire and train more fisheries officers to inspect fish farms.

The predictable response from fish farm operations: We welcome having more inspections it will be good for our industry.

[Saltwaterfarmer]

@CommonSenseCanadian I would agree with you if I hadn't seen first hand how this industry thrives to change and better it's practices continuously.

Fish farmers get this rap about how they destroy and corrupt. I would believe it If I hadn't known so many environmentally aware farmers on an individual basis.

If people worked with us instead of against us a fine balance could be found. Instead, people just blindly throw stones at something they don't understand.

[CommonSenseCanadian]

@Saltwaterfarmer Watch my documentary Farmed Salmon Exposed - google it. It's the most comprehensive look at the global salmon farming industry available and includes comments from the world's top scientists on the subject, as well as the CEO's and charimen of the biggest companies in your industry - Marine Harvest and Cermaq. I understand you're defending your livelihood, but that doesn't give you the right to destroy the livelihoods of many others, nor to destroy our precious environment.

[Saltwaterfarmer]

@CommonSenseCanadian I thought it was funny. You can dish it, but can't take it?