[van-announce] We Must Close the Salmon Farms NOW! (fwd)

[Tania Willard]

>
>
> The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs calls on you to protect the wild salmon.
>>
>> We Must Close the Salmon Farms NOW!
>> RALLY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS OFFICE
>>
>> Friday, January 31
>> 10:30 a.m.
>> 401 Burrard Street  (at Pender St.)
>> Vancouver
>>
>> Farmed Salmon
>> EQUALS
>> NO bears
>> NO eagles
>> NO whales
>> NO wild salmon
>>
>> At least seven unique runs of wild pink salmon in the Broughton
> Archipelago region of the mainland coast of B.C. are facing extinction 
> due
> to salmon farms. Tragically, these wild runs have collapsed by 98% in 
> one
> year, from 3.6 million fish (2001) to 147,000 (2002). A commercial 
> fishery
> held in August caught only 12 pink salmon. This is an economic and
> environmental disaster.
>>
>> Senior scientists from the DFO concluded that an infestation of 
>> parasitic
> sea lice from the salmon farms in the area is the only plausible cause 
> for
> the salmon collapse. They recommended that, in order to save the last
> remaining wild stocks, the salmon farms be closed for a minimum six-week
> span before the pink salmon smolts leave their rivers for the marine
> environment (early April) and kept closed until at least mid-June. This
> means the farms must be closed by mid-February if the wild runs are to
> survive, but, irresponsibly, some farms have already begun re-stocking.
>>
>> JOIN US!
>>
>> For more information contact Don Bain at the UBCIC office at 604 684
>> 0231 or via email at <jpc1 at ubcic.bc.ca>
>>
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> political organization protecting the Aboriginal Title and Rights of our
> member communities. We are based in Kamloops and have an office in
> Vancouver. For further details visit our website at 
> http://www.ubcic.bc.ca.
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