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Top Conservation Award for Monsieur Saumon / Prix de conservation le plus prestigieux décerné à Monsieur Saumon

Top Conservation Award for Monsieur Saumon

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http://asf.ca/news.php?id=666&type=press Top Conservation Award for Monsieur Saumon April 28th, 2011 For immediate release  Editor's Note: A full-sized image for printing is available at 300 dpi. Click here St. Andrews, NB ….. The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) presented its top Canadian conservation award to Yvon  Côté, known as Monsieur Salmon in Québec, in Montréal on Wednesday, April 27. Presented in conjunction with ASF’s board meeting, Directors from both Canada and the United States were present to honour their colleague’s commitment to conservation of salmon and their habitat. "Yvon Côté has guided the Fédération québécoise pour le saumon Atlantique (FQSA), ASF's Regional Council in Québec,  through challenging times with poise and a level headedness that has brought praise from all sectors of the Atlantic salmon world," states ASF (Canada) Chairman, the Honourable Michael Meighen.  "Yvon goes beyond the call of duty to help solve problems in a spirit of respect and cooperation, while trying to include all stakeholders." In Québec, he led the way for the creation of a federally funded "Salmon Economic Development Program", which provides funds to facilitate development and conservation initiatives in the province’s rivers. Yvon’s knowledge of Atlantic salmon issues and biology is uncontested.  For more than 20 years, he held various positions within the Québec Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife.  During his tenure, he completed many field research projects and was the chief Atlantic salmon biologist until he retired from the public service in 1996. He has served as President of the FQSA since 2000.  Founded in 1984, FQSA is a non-profit organization that works to preserve and improve salmon rivers, develop Québec’s salmon sport fishery, and protect the resource and its habitat against threats.  FQSA has 35 affiliated river management groups and more than a thousand members. The award, first presented in 1975, is named in memory of T.B. "Happy" Fraser of Montréal for the many contributions he made during his lifetime to protect and conserve wild Atlantic salmon.  Since then ASF has honoured more than 40 people, who, like Mr. Côté, have contributed significantly to ensure the future survival of this iconic species. The Atlantic Salmon Federation is dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon and the ecosystems on which their well being and survival depend. ASF has a network of seven regional councils (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Maine and Western New England).  The regional councils cover the freshwater range of the Atlantic salmon in Canada and the United States. -30- Cutline: Yvon Côté (centre) was presented with the Atlantic Salmon Federation's T. B. "Happy" Fraser Conservation Award from ASF President Bill Taylor (left) and Senator Michael Meighen, Chairman of ASF (Canada) on April 27 in Montreal. Prix de conservation le plus prestigieux décerné à Monsieur Saumon Press Releases   http://asf.ca/news.php?id=666&type=press Prix de conservation le plus prestigieux décerné à Monsieur Saumon April 28th, 2011   Photo St. Andrews (Nouveau-Brunswick) ... Le mercredi 27 avril à Montréal, la Fédération du saumon atlantique (FSA) a présenté son prix de conservation le plus prestigieux à Yvon Côté, baptisé Monsieur Saumon, au Québec. Le prix a été décerné à la réunion du conseil de la FSA par les présidents des conseils canadien et américain afin d’honorer l’engagement de leur collègue envers la conservation du saumon atlantique sauvage et de son habitat. « Yvon Côté a dirigé la Fédération québécoise pour le saumon Atlantique (FQSA), conseil régional de la FSA au Québec, avec assurance et lucidité alors qu’elle traversait une période difficile, ce qui lui a valu des louanges de tous les secteurs du monde du saumon atlantique, de dire l’honorable Michael Meighen, président de la FSA (Canada). Yvon va bien au-delà de ce qu’impose le devoir pour résoudre les problèmes dans le respect et la coopération, tout en sollicitant la participation de toutes les parties prenantes. » Au Québec, il a ouvert la voie à la création d’un « Plan de développement économique du saumon atlantique » financé par le gouvernement fédéral qui accorde des fonds pour favoriser la conception et la réalisation de projets de conservation dans les rivières de la province. Sa connaissance des enjeux et de la biologie du saumon n'est plus à démontrer. Au cours des 20 dernières années, Yvon a occupé divers postes au ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec. Pendant ce temps, il a réalisé de nombreux projets de recherche et a été le biologiste en chef du saumon jusqu'à son départ à la retraite de la fonction publique en 1996. Il est président de la FQSA depuis l'an 2000. Créée en 1984, la FQSA est un organisme sans but lucratif qui se voue à la préservation et à la mise en valeur des rivières à saumon, au développement de la pêche sportive au saumon et à la défense de la ressource saumon et de son habitat contre toutes les menaces. La FQSA compte 35 clubs affiliés de gestion de rivières et plus de mille membres. Le prix, présenté pour la première fois en 1975, est nommé à la mémoire de T.B. « Happy » Fraser de Montréal pour les nombreuses contributions faites au cours de sa vie pour protéger et conserver le saumon atlantique sauvage. Depuis lors, la FSA a honoré plus de 40 personnes comme M. Côté, qui ont fait une contribution notable pour assurer la survie de cette espèce emblématique. La Fédération du saumon atlantique est vouée à la conservation, à la protection et au rétablissement du saumon atlantique sauvage et des écosystèmes dont il dépend pour son bien-être et sa survie. Elle regroupe sept conseils régionaux (Nouveau-Brunswick, Nouvelle-Écosse, Terre-Neuve et Labrador, Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Québec, Maine et ouest de la Nouvelle-Angleterre) qui couvrent toute l'aire de distribution du saumon atlantique en au douce au Canada et aux États-Unis. -30- Photo Yvon Côté (au centre) s'est vu remettre le Prix  de conservation de la FSA T.B. « Happy » Fraser par Bill Taylor, président de la FSA, et le sénateur Michael Meighen, président du conseil (Canada) de la FSA le 27 avril dernier à Montréal. Muriel Ferguson, Communications, FSA 506 529-1033 ou 506 529-4581

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Wild Salmon People Candidates of Canada will you remove salmon feedlots from BC waters?

http://www.wildsalmonpeople.ca/

Wild Salmon People

Candidates of Canada

will you remove salmon feedlots from BC waters?

April 2011 - Campaign for Wild Salmon  

This spring we have the opportunity to elect a government that will work for us, the people.  I am hitting the campaign trail mid-April to personally ask candidates if they will remove salmon feedlots from our wild salmon waters.  We are guardians of  one of earth's most generous and increasingly rare resources and we are trading them away to become beggars at a table we once owned.  

According to the province there are only 1,259 jobs directly with salmon feedlots - we can help these people find work elsewhere and thus there is no downside to getting these pollution sources out of our ocean.

I will be posting candidate responses here. If we want our communities to thrive we have to take back the power to lead government and make sure they start working for us, not the huge international corporations that are taking the trees we grow, are so blinded by their oil addiction they create toxic waste lands, and see wild salmon as an impediment to "progress." Today's government is impaired we need to do an intervention.  See how at salmonaresacred.org. Lets find out if we still live in a democracy.

Our salmon feed the ecology of this coast and our economy: whales, eagles people, a $1 billion wilderness tourism industry and a $500 million commercial fishery. They also feed our souls.  Last summer wild salmon passed through the city of Vancouver carrying 45 million kilograms of ocean energy uphill deep into the interior of the province rebuilding our forests. They fed thousands of people, breathing economic life into communities province-wide. This windfall came in spite of  political floundering, neglect and cover-ups. This website is about making choices in this election that will serve the people of Canada. We are a rich land, but only as long as we remain ecologically intact.  

People and salmon arrived in British Columbia together to a land laid bare by receding glacial ice. As salmon built the earth with their bodies, the people built a culture that respected the fish they depended on. In this way people and fish prospered together. The 2010 sockeye taught us this opportunity still exists.

The Cohen inquiry into the 18-year sockeye productivity decline revealed on March 17that Fisheries and Oceans Canada is covering up that the majority of Fraser sockeye appear to be infected with a virus. Called Salmon Leukemia, Marine Anemia by fish farmers, this virus became epidemic in salmon feedlots on the sockeye marine migration route in the early 1990s.  This is exactly when the sockeye began to decline. It is highly significant that a DFO scientist is now pinpointing this same virus is epidemic in wild salmon. Salmon Leukemia weakens salmon making them vulnerable to all pathogens,  drives them into the river too early and millions have died just before spawning.   If the industry also spills an exotic virus into BC, these weakened salmon don't have chance. See my blog  "DFO - in the business of truth?"

DFO will not allow the scientist who discovered this to speak.  Why?  Why would they hide that a virus appears to be killing the majority of wild salmon of the Fraser River? A senior fishery scientist point out this is exactly how the east coast cod were killed off. In that case, the Hibernia oil wells went onto the Grand Banks as soon as  the fishermen were tied to the dock. Is Canada afraid to stand up to the Norwegian government, who are heavily invested in salmon feedlots in BC because Norway is an important oil partner?  After 26 years of trying to protect my town from the salmon feedlots I can say government is not actually interested in wild salmon.

Government judgement is impaired when it comes to the Norwegian salmon feedlot industry. We need a government strong enough to work for us.

The life cycle of salmon spans the province of British Columbia from the headwaters, through our towns and cities, out into international waters. If we gauged our behavior in terms of impact on salmon, we would instantly have to consider affects upstream and downstream along this living corridor. This simple shift in vision would create social and ecological maturity with enormous possibility.  Today's governments appear blind and deaf to this, but the right government could ensure long term prosperity and health.

Democracy means the ultimate power is vested in the people. If we elect agents to administer our needs,  if we want a future where humanity prospers we need a government that is free and unencumbered who can deliver this. The longer we delay the less we have to work with to rebuild our home, this election is crucial this is not a dress rehearsal!

I am going to be campaigning this spring for wild salmon.  I am posting candidate responses to the question - will you stand for wild salmon and remove the salmon feedlots from British Columbian waters?

 Wild salmon are a living icon of democracy and we choose their name to represent us.

Alexandra Morton

Salmon Are Sacred because they support all the living world around them