lease find enclosed a press update including:
"Day 7: There is something wrong with this process" (Alexandra Morton, 31st August):
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2011/08/day-7-there-is-something-wrong-with-this-process.html "Wild Salmon Warriors Show Up!" (Salmon Are Sacred, 31st August):
http://www.salmonaresacred.org/blog/wild-salmon-warriors-show "B.C. fish farm opponents rally in Vancouver" (The Straight, 30th August):
http://www.straight.com/article-443561/vancouver/bc-fish-farm-opponents-rally-vancouver "Wild salmon rally" (The Straight, 30th August):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiSzCSI0v4 "Wild Salmon Rally 2011 Vancouver with Alexandra Morton" (Butch News, 30th August):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlHf_aLKt4 "Alexandra Morton speaks at the Rally for Wild Salmon in Vancouver" (You Tube, 30th August):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkAkSg3Vw8 "Alexandra Morton, Rally for Wild Salmon, Vancouver" (You Tube, 30th August):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YubGPGHPTjg "Wild Salmon Warriors" (Running Scared, 30th August):
http://runningscared.ca/UrbanMomtographer/wordless-wednesday-wild-salmon-warriors/ "Fish farms out, say activists at Wild Salmon Warrior rally" (The Vancouver Observer, 30th August):
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/civicvoices/2011/08/30/fish-farms-out-say-activists-wild-salmon-warrior-rally "Morton Sees Answer to Fraser Sockeye Collapse...And She's Finally Free to Share It" (The Common Sense Canadian, 30th August):
http://thecanadian.org/k2/item/990-morton-answer-to-fraser-sockeye-collapse-marine-anemia-isav "B.C. retracts application to block release of salmon farm audits/Province allows release of salmon audits" (Ottawa Citizen/The Vancouver Sun, 30th August):
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/retracts+application+block+release+salmon+farm+audits/5330495/story.html and
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Province+allows+release+salmon+audits/5332306/story.html "BC Premier Christy Clark deserves applause after release of classified salmon farm disease data, says Alexandra Morton" (Environmental Communication Options, 30th August):
http://www.huffstrategy.com/MediaManager/release/Salmon-are-Sacred/30-8-11/BC-Premier-Christy-Clark-deserves-applause-after-release-of-class/2324.html "Province agrees to make fish farm audits public" (The Tyee, 30th August):
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/08/30/Fish_Farm_Audits_Public/ "Cohen Aquaculture Daily: August 30, 2011" (Watershed Watch, 30th August):
http://www.watershed-watch.org/2011/08/cohen-aquaculture-daily-august-30-2011/ "Sockeye probe reports split on aquaculture risk" (BC Local News, 30th August):
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/128682933.html "THE SMOKIN’ GUN ON THE WILD SALMON DECLINE – SECRET RELEASED" (Terrace Daily, 30th August):
http://www.terracedaily.ca/show8436a6s0x300y1z/THE_SMOKIN_GUN_ON_THE_WILD_SALMON_DECLINE__SECRET_RELEASED "Muzzling speaks loudly" (Winnipeg Free Press, 30th August):
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/128658833.html Including from Damien Gillis writing in The Common Sense Canadian:
"In a blog posting yesterday, following a series of major developments at the Cohen Commission, biologist Alexandra Morton suggests she now has enough pieces of the puzzle to pin much of the blame for collapsing Fraser sockeye stocks on salmon farms.
Morton and her team have reviewed over 500,000 documents submitted to the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser sockeye over the past year and she would have presented her conclusions to the public sooner, were it not for a confidentiality undertaking she and other Inquiry participants were forced to sign. But as of this week, much of the key evidence upon which Morton is basing her allegations has been officially entered into the record at the Commission and is thus now public.
The final piece fell into place when counsel representing the Clark Government backed down from its opposition to allowing a batch of fish farm disease databases from being entered into the record. The Province's lawyer had made the argument that concealing information from the public was somehow actually in the public interest. But Monday, following a wave of public protest and negative media, Premier Christy Clark backed down and the records became public"
"A looming issue with this inquiry is the extremely short amount of time each coalition is being given to question witnesses. We were given access to over 500,000 documents, but there is no time to bring forth most of the important information contained in them. The Cohen Inquiry spent months going through policy issues, but when it comes to the actual biological reason the Fraser sockeye are dying - and the extremely important question - is this industry placed in locations that are dangerous to wild salmon - lawyers are in some cases being given 5 minutes to question four witnesses. Why is this?"
Until 8th September, the Cohen Commission in Canada will focus on salmon farming and the disease issue – details via:
http://www.superheroes4salmon.org/blog/dfo-dock-cohen-commission-august-september 'Aquaculture' is on the agenda on 31st of August and on 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th September (Alexandra Morton is on the witness stand on 7th & 8th September along with Marine Harvest and Grieg; Mainstream/Cermaq is on the stand today - 31st August).
According to the Cohen Commission web-site: "With increased interest in the commission’s hearings as they near their conclusion, the commission will be allocating a block of seats in the public gallery to participants with standing for the topic for each day’s hearing. Any additional seating will be on a first-come, first-serve basis".
Watch the Cohen Commission live via:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/salmon-inquiry#utm_campaign=www.facebook.com&utm_source=9161925&utm_medium=social Live updates online via Facebook: "Salmon Inquiry: Cohen Commission Watch":
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113025692098919&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=113025692098919 For more background on the Cohen Commission visit:
http://www.superheroes4salmon.org/cohen CAD logo
Click here for the "Cohen Aquaculture Daily" - daily updates on the Cohen Disease and Aquaculture evidentiary hearings Aug 22 to Sept 8, 2011.
Watch a new film by Jeremy Williams: "Rise of the Salmon People":
http://vimeo.com/27686633 Read a new report "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse" online via:
http://www.ecobc.org/~DOCUMENTS/Salmon/Fish_Farmageddon_.pdf Best fishes,
Don
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