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Easywater

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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3300 on: July 17, 2019, 12:06:09 PM »
https://act.newmode.net/action/unredactforsalmon

Web page from Alexandra Morton to send an email to your MP and the Minister of Fisheries with the following contents:

Dear Minister of Fisheries, Jonathan Wilkinson:
CC: my local MP

After losing three lawsuits, you are now trying to change the law to allow PRV-infected farm salmon into fish farms. Before you do this, we need know what the Norwegian virologist told DFO about the virulence of this virus.

To protect wild salmon, section 56 of the Fishery (General) Regulations prohibits the Minister of Fisheries from transferring fish infected with a “disease agent” into marine net pen fish farms.

The salmon farming industry argued in court that this law “severely impacts” their business, because so many farm salmon are infected with PRV.  PRV is a Norwegian blood virus associated with massive blood cell rupture and organ failure in Chinook salmon.

Three Ministers before you ignored the Federal Court ruling that farm salmon must be screened for PRV before issuing a licence to transfer them from hatcheries into marine farms. 

As a result, wild salmon exposed to salmon farms are becoming infected with PRV and many runs of wild salmon are sliding towards extinction.

Your department’s position is that PRV is not harmful. 

However, on April 4, 2016, DFO received virulence test results from a Norwegian virologist.  Eleven lines of this email were redacted.  Despite DFO promises to be transparent, requests for the information in this email have been denied.

Before you change the laws of Canada to fit the salmon farming industry by legalizing PRV-infected farm salmon, we need to review all information on how virulent PRV is to salmon.

Please release the unredacted version of the April 4, 2016 email from Dr. Rimstad to Dr. Kyle Garver (DFO).

Thank you,
[your name will go here]
[your email address will go here] [your location will go here]
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3301 on: July 26, 2019, 02:50:14 PM »
Record Sockeye in Bristol Bay in Alaska - over 40 million already.
23 million pinks expected.
Coho numbers are good.
Chinook returns are poor.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2019/07/25/bristol-bay-sockeye-harvest-blowing-away-forecast-once-again/
https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2019/07/26/fish-abound-across-southcentral-alaska-as-salmon-swarm-area-streams/

Ocean survival is not the problem - the problem exists between the Fraser and the top of Haida Gwaii.
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3302 on: July 26, 2019, 03:55:22 PM »
Quote from: Easywater on July 26, 2019, 02:50:14 PM
Record Sockeye in Bristol Bay in Alaska - over 40 million already.
23 million pinks expected.
Coho numbers are good.
Chinook returns are poor.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2019/07/25/bristol-bay-sockeye-harvest-blowing-away-forecast-once-again/
https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2019/07/26/fish-abound-across-southcentral-alaska-as-salmon-swarm-area-streams/

Ocean survival is not the problem - the problem exists between the Fraser and the top of Haida Gwaii.

Ocean survival varies for different species and regions.  When northern stocks do well, southern stocks tend to suffer, and vice-versa.  Also, Alaska chinook survival has been dismal for a few years, but California is having a banner year. 
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3303 on: July 26, 2019, 04:33:12 PM »
Quote from: Easywater on July 26, 2019, 02:50:14 PM
Record Sockeye in Bristol Bay in Alaska - over 40 million already.
23 million pinks expected.
Coho numbers are good.
Chinook returns are poor.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2019/07/25/bristol-bay-sockeye-harvest-blowing-away-forecast-once-again/
https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2019/07/26/fish-abound-across-southcentral-alaska-as-salmon-swarm-area-streams/

Ocean survival is not the problem - the problem exists between the Fraser and the top of Haida Gwaii.

Actually the problem persists up to the top end of the gulf of alaska. Bristol bay sockeye live there lives in the bering sea and the warmer warmers there have been great for sockeye. Not so good for their cod fishery tho.
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3304 on: July 30, 2019, 04:24:35 PM »
What about this run in the Kenai?

https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2019/07/29/sockeye-salmon-continue-to-surge-into-kenai-river/

The river is in the inlet that leads to Anchorage just off the gulf of Alaska.

Another news article showing the scope of the fishing:
https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2019/07/20/alaskans-line-the-kenais-mouth-to-dipnet-for-sockeye-salmon/
« Last Edit: July 30, 2019, 04:28:42 PM by Easywater »
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3305 on: September 20, 2019, 11:46:54 AM »
Salmon farm decommission in B.C.'s Broughton on track, says premier

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-farm-decommission-1.5290677

5 farms have been decommissioned, 5 more by 2022 and another 7 by 2024.
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3306 on: September 29, 2019, 10:57:17 AM »
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3307 on: October 05, 2019, 04:16:17 PM »
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3308 on: October 07, 2019, 01:54:44 PM »
https://seawestnews.com/its-not-about-wild-first-its-about-votes-first/

“Despite apocalyptic projections that salmon farms will decimate all wild salmon stocks on the West Coast, nothing of the sort has happened.”
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3309 on: October 09, 2019, 01:32:15 PM »
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3310 on: October 09, 2019, 02:32:45 PM »
Good, science prevailed over the activist.  That, plus testing for an endemic virus would have made it nearly impossible for volunteer hatcheries to continue.
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3311 on: October 26, 2019, 12:18:26 PM »
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3312 on: October 27, 2019, 10:01:36 AM »
This man imo is a very good speaker. Well worth taking the time to watch this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZWaWJZgV4
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3313 on: October 29, 2019, 04:45:26 AM »
Quote from: Dave on October 09, 2019, 02:32:45 PM
Good, science prevailed over the activist.  That, plus testing for an endemic virus would have made it nearly impossible for volunteer hatcheries to continue.
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/farmed-salmon-toxic-flame-retardants?fbclid=IwAR2cgF1kSPKHI3IQfJb2hV7RTZ3ut6wWLRFXHyjq8vJjB3S_l7PAqsL3kLU
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Re: Get your facts straight?
« Reply #3314 on: October 29, 2019, 06:43:02 AM »
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