[Reellife] Salmon Confidential

[dave olsen]

Although most documentaries these days are well produced and fast-paced, rare 
still is the film that is convincing to the point of taking action.

Salmon Confidential <http://www.salmonconfidential.ca>, a new film by Twyla 
Roscovich, convinced me.

The film documents the work being done by biologist Alexandra Morton to prevent 
the extinction of wild salmon in the rivers and oceans of what is called BC.

It also brings us into the recent Cohen Commission hearings and focuses on the 
lead players in the federal government.

But what surprised me, a person who has been following the issue of farmed 
salmon for well over a decade, is the clarity that the film brings to this 
issue.  There is no longer any doubt in my mind. Farmed salmon must be removed 
from all wild salmon migratory routes asap.

I remember reading about Alex's work on sea lice and how that was ignored by 
government regulators and fish farm owners.

I've heard about the Department of Fisheries and Ocean's (DFO) conscious denial 
of any issue and refusal to investigate.

But this film showed me how much work Alexandra Morton has done. She has worked 
with every type of person up and down the coast that has concern for wild 
salmon, imparting her knowledge and expertise to be able to work together to 
overcome government and industry.

The film also shows how she and others are simply acting, without funding, to 
expose the cover-ups and lies, by sending salmon samples to independent, 
world-renown laboratories to test for lethal viruses.

And most horrific of all, it shows how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency 
(CFIA) is more concerned with international trade than with what their mission 
states on paper: to protect the food supply in Canada.

Twyla and Alex are showing this film virtually every night this month and into 
the next.  To find out where and when they will be next, click here. 
<http://www.salmonaresacred.org/calendar> To organize a showing of the film in 
your community, click here. 
<http://salmonconfidential.ca/organize-a-showing-in-your-community/>

You can also view the film online anytime as well, at SalmonConfidential.ca 
<http://www.salmonconfidential.ca>. But if you can catch Twyla and Alex in 
person, you'll get all the latest info and happenings as well as meet two 
incredible human beings.

If you want our children to know wild salmon, now is the time to act.  Anything 
less will mean the end of these incredible creatures that are the cornerstone of 
so many others.

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Warmly,
dave/
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