Write Wild - Save Wild Salmon

Submitted by sven on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 20:33

The deadly virus, Infectious Salmon Anemia, has been linked to fish farms in Scotland, Norway and Chile. Now it has been found in wild pacific salmon in BC.

The virus is likely spread through the import of Atlantic salmon eggs from Europe. For many years, environmentalists and scientists have viewed an outbreak of ISA as the worst case scenario for wild salmon in BC. This discovery is devastating news for wild salmon, and if serious action is not taken our wild salmon stocks may never be the same.

There are many reasons we need to take action to remove fish farms from our coast, but the outbreak of ISA is the straw that breaks the camels back. We can not longer afford not to take action.

Please write today to ask the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to take immediate action

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Some points to consider:

Salmon farm pens are tightly packed with hundreds of thousands of adult farm salmon, thus becoming an ideal breeding ground for parasitic sea lice to proliferate, and for disease to grow.
ISA outbreaks are linked to fish farms in Scotland, Norway and Chile. The ISA virus has appeared everywhere that industrial Atlantic salmon farming operates, and has had devastating impacts on the industry.
During the Cohen Inquiry, Alexandra Morton found over 1,100 reports of ISAV-like lesions in the provincial fish farm vet reports. Later, testing on smolts confirmed the presence of the European strain of ISA in salmon on the BC coast.
Salmon farms are situated in channels, inlets and bays close to shore, where they are near stream mouths or along migration routes. Juvenile wild salmon have to swim by these sea lice producing farms and vulnerable to diseases and parasites.
Industrial fish farms are an experiment that has failed. We need to act now to save our wild salmon, and the first step is to close industrial fish farms.

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