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[chris gadsden]

When you read this it makes one suspicious that proper work is not being done on FF either.

"Both Polak and Shea refused to be interviewed by The Sun"



http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Minding+Farm+Agriculture+practices+clash+with+protection+streams+fish+habitat/9916232/story.html

[shuswapsteve]

Actually it should make you wonder why fish farms take most of the criticism nowadays while agricultural practices inland don't get much exposure.  Where do the juvenile Pacific Salmon rear?  This really isn't new news.  Mind you cuts to DFO and revisions to the Fisheries Act have definitely not helped matters much.

Streams, especially in the Fraser Valley, like Bertrand have been under attack for years. What do you think those mall parking lots and other development in the Lower Mainland are covering up?  Go a little further and take a look at the larger nursery lakes in the interior of BC like the Shuswap and Mara lakes.  Average folks there (not just those deep pocketed developers that people love to hate) have altered lakeshore habitat essential for rearing Sockeye so that they can have a nice beach to swim at or dock their speed boat. This will never get mentioned much in the media because how can our desire for recreation and leisure possibly be as bad as those nasty fish farms.  Tourism is supposed to be such a clean industry.  This is one of the reasons why fish farm activists have been successful in making BC fish farmers the boogeyman.  Compare aerial photos of the shorelines of those larger lakes to what they were 30 years ago.  You would be amazed and it would probably give you a different perspective you wouldn't get from Alexandra Morton.

[chris gadsden]

Actually it should make you wonder why fish farms take most of the criticism nowadays while agricultural practices inland don't get much exposure.  Where do the juvenile Pacific Salmon rear?  This really isn't new news.  Mind you cuts to DFO and revisions to the Fisheries Act have definitely not helped matters much.

Streams, especially in the Fraser Valley, like Bertrand have been under attack for years. What do you think those mall parking lots and other development in the Lower Mainland are covering up?  Go a little further and take a look at the larger nursery lakes in the interior of BC like the Shuswap and Mara lakes.  Average folks there (not just those deep pocketed developers that people love to hate) have altered lakeshore habitat essential for rearing Sockeye so that they can have a nice beach to swim at or dock their speed boat. This will never get mentioned much in the media because how can our desire for recreation and leisure possibly be as bad as those nasty fish farms.  Tourism is supposed to be such a clean industry.  This is one of the reasons why fish farm activists have been successful in making BC fish farmers the boogeyman.  Compare aerial photos of the shorelines of those larger lakes to what they were 30 years ago.  You would be amazed and it would probably give you a different perspective you wouldn't get from Alexandra Morton.

What you say has happened is so true and FF are also part of what is happening for the worse. I know its a complex world and because so many these days just see the dollar signs and they care little about our environment, they may give it lip service but that's about it.

We that truly care have to do what we can to slow the process and I know you too care about many things I continue to be concerned about.

I also might add, your insight into this matter is well thoughtout and I appreciate that.