I received this important email from my dear friend Paul C Marriner this morning asking me to pass along this pettition. Thanks PAul to letting us know what's going on with the Aquaculture farm and the damage they cause to our fishery.
Hello Friends of Wild Salmon:
Aquaculture is doing great damage to wild salmon stocks on both coasts of Canada. Please sign the petition at www.salmonaresacred.org
Every person who cares about wild salmon needs to stand up and becomes visible to Ottawa. This is not about getting rid of aquaculture; this is about bringing the fish farming companies into compliance with the laws every other fishery in Canada respects.
Salmon farms were exempted from the fishing regulations of Canada in 1993 and the companies, many of them from Norway where great damage has already been inflicted on the wild fish, are lobbying our Members of Parliament to continue these exemptions when they become federally regulated in December. If they succeed we can give up; they will once again be outside the law. For more information see http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
We cannot possibly manage Canada’s wild fish sustainably, if one group is allowed unlimited by-catch of wild herring, wild salmon, cod and other species in their nets. We cannot have one set of rules that says no fishing with bright lights and then allow fish farms on every major migration route to use these lights, attracting thousands of wild fish to their farms. Highly mechanized fish farms will never replace the wild salmon jobs in fishing and tourism.
Salmon farms were exempted from the fishing regulations of Canada in 1993 and the companies, many of them from Norway where great damage has already been inflicted on the wild fish, are lobbying our Members of Parliament to continue these exemptions when they become federally regulated in December. If they succeed we can give up; they will once again be outside the law. For more information see http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
We cannot possibly manage Canada’s wild fish sustainably, if one group is allowed unlimited by-catch of wild herring, wild salmon, cod and other species in their nets. We cannot have one set of rules that says no fishing with bright lights and then allow fish farms on every major migration route to use these lights, attracting thousands of wild fish to their farms. Highly mechanized fish farms will never replace the wild salmon jobs in fishing and tourism.
Thank you!
Graham
Jocelin LeBlanc & Sonie Poulin
