Concert: Pull Together for Wild Salmon!
Featuring:
The Wilds – Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright, Dynamic Eco-RockStars who will raise the roof!
Friday, October 11, 2019…
Read More >>Featuring:
The Wilds – Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright, Dynamic Eco-RockStars who will raise the roof!
Friday, October 11, 2019…
Read More >>This blog will contain posts about News items related to wild salmon on the BC coast.
The federal government isn’t properly managing the risks that farmed salmon pose to their wild counterparts, nor is it doing enough to ensure Canada is meeting its international commitments on biodiversity and sustainable development, Canada’s environmental watchdog says….
Read More >>Leaders from several B.C. First Nations took to the water on Sunday to serve an eviction notice to the province’s largest producer of farmed fish.
Elders and heredity chiefs from six different nations boarded boats just off the coast of Port Hardy, B.C. to tell Marine Harvest to pack up and leave. They believe fish farms spread disease and are hurting wild salmon…
The City of Victoria has reaffirmed its opposition to open-net fish farms over the objections of Coun. Geoff Young.
Councillors passed a motion to forward to the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities calling on the province to consult with First Nations, local governments, conservation organizations and industry on a plan to move to closed-containment aquaculture…
Read More >>Wild salmon exposed to open-net fish farms are much more likely to be infected with piscine reovirus (PRV) than those that don’t have that contact, a new study has concluded…
Read More >>A Washington state senator is introducing legislation to ban open-net pen fish farms and says British Columbia should do the same…
Read More >>Wild salmon off the B.C. coast are swimming metres away from a stream of blood pouring into the water — the byproduct of farmed-salmon being processed at Brown’s Bay Packing Company, near Campbell River, B.C. …
Read More >>VANCOUVER – The Wild Salmon Caravan will launch its third annual journey with a Rainbow Parade in
Vancouver on Saturday, Oct. 7. The Caravan will then make several stops as it follows the wild salmon
from the Salish Seas to Secwepemcul’ecw territory…