Well Chris I looked through the first 3 videos and noted the following right away:
1. Craig Orr doesn't seem to remember the Terms of Reference of the Cohen Inquiry. For being an active participant at the inquiry and doing many media interviews, I am surprised that he made such a obvious mistake during his presentation; however, I do not imagine that his audience would have picked up on it because they probably thought that he knew what he was talking about in this regard. Contray to what Craig says, the inquiry was not about seeking to find fault. This is what the Terms of Reference says in this regard:
"to conduct the Inquiry without seeking to find fault on the part of any individual, community or organization, and with the overall aim of respecting conservation of the sockeye salmon stock and encouraging broad cooperation among stakeholders."
http://www.cohencommission.ca/en/TermsOfReference.php2. I wonder why Orr never talked more about Broughton Pink Salmon. How well did those correlative studies in 2007 do in predicting the extinction of Pink Salmon there? How well did Pink Salmon there do before and after fish farms? Did he take a look at Pink Salmon escapements before fish farms and after fish farms? What are the major Pink producing systems in the Broughton and were they all represented in previous studies? When you consider that computer modelling are based on certain assumptions being true, would it be a good idea to ground truth these computer modelling/correlative studies done in the Broughton with what the fish are actually doing? What have these populations been doing over the long term? Why do farm critics generally only talk about the odd Pink years when even years are substantially more dominant? He avoids all of these in his presentation. Who is doing the "SCAM" now?
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Topic: Some fish farm reading. (Read 20660 times)