Wild Salmon In Bc - Are They Important To You?

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Hello,

 

Please consider participating in this event and forwarding the information on to like minded organizations and individuals.

 

Wild Salmon in BC - Are they important to you?

 

Alexandra Morton is a biologist who has been documenting and communicating the impacts of salmon farming on wild salmon for the last 20 years http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/ . After all those years of scientific work, and recently rigorous legal action, she has decided it is time for activism. Nothing else is working. No matter what her and her colleagues do or say, it is clear that the government does not understand the harm that salmon farming is doing to our coast and that OUR salmon trump farmed salmon, owned by Norwegian salmon farming corporations.

 

So, Alex Morton and a group of us have decided to do a large Migration. It's called the Get Out Migration. We are walking from our homes on Malcom Island to Victoria, British Columbia (~500kms) to raise awareness to our government about the importance of wild salmon and to demand that salmon farms get off the migration routes of wild salmon, because they cause disease epidemics and pollute the nearshore habitat. We are walking from April 22 to May 9. On May 9 we'll arrive in Victoria and will walk to the Parliament building where we will be received by MP Finn Donnelly. He'll receive our petitions and celebrate wild salmon with us. It is important he sees the efforts of the walk, but also on the internet and around the world.

 

The whole point of this is to stand up and be counted - whether that is electronically, in written form or in person. People across Vancouver Island (and the world) are being amazing - inviting us into their homes, planning their own Migrations to join up with us, booking community halls for Salmon Celebrations...it's going to be two intense but beautiful weeks on the road and on-line.

 

If you, your organization or your students want to let the federal government know that wild salmon are more important to you than farmed salmon, I encourage you too to stand up and be counted:

 

- You can sign the petition at http://salmonaresacred.org/petition-protect-wild-salmon

- You can print out a card to mail to MP Finn Donnelly on the Fisheries Standing Committee at http://salmonaresacred.org/downloads (mailing the Feds is free!)

- You can sign a letter to the Fisheries Minister to hold salmon farms to Canadian fisheries laws - http://www.adopt-a-fry.org/

- You can check the Migration's website and go to an event in your community, participate in Forum discussions and watch our Migration's progress

- You can organize a Salmon Celebration event in your community

- OR you can join us on any part of the walk! We'd love anyone and everyone in any shape or form.

 

If you live on the Island, or want to come out for this, our itinerary is currently:

22nd April - Broughton Archipelago/Alert Bay/Sointula

23rd April – Sointula/Port McNeill

24th April - Nimpkish Lake

25th April - Zeballos Junction

26th April - Woss

27th April - Sayward

28th April - Quadra Island

29th April - Campbell River/Courtenay/Comox

30th April - Big Qualicum River/Parksville

1st May - Port Alberni

2nd May - Nanaimo

3rd May - Ladysmith/Saltspring Island

4th May - Saltspring Island

5th May - Duncan

6th May - Bamberton

7th May - Sidney/Saanich

8th May – Victoria

9th May - Victoria

 

The Migration's website is http://salmonaresacred.org.

 

Paddlers can join us by boat as we cross from Sointula to Port McNeill, go through the Discovery Islands from Sayward to Quadra, rally in the habours of any of the towns we are having events in (especially Victoria's inner harbour) or they can create their own Migration events on their favorite bodies of water. Simply photograph your Migration event and send it to us, we'll deliver it to the politicians in Victoria. Please contact us at this address for coordination opportunities.

 

If you have the time, any help networking this would be amazing. Please send those petition links and the Migration website onto your colleagues, friends and lists etc. The more that Canadians are given a chance to tell the government how the feel, the better chance we'll have at getting these farms off our coast.

 

For our wild fish,

 

The Get Out Migration Team

http://www.salmonaresacred.org/

[wongrs]

I've signed the petition and recently viewed some of Alex's videos. Pretty scary stuff with the sea lice. I've committed to not eating farmed atlantic salmon due to those videos combined with the SeaChoice reference card.

 

Thanks for raising the issue!

[bigbrooktrout]

I've signed the petition and recently viewed some of Alex's videos. Pretty scary stuff with the sea lice. I've committed to not eating farmed atlantic salmon due to those videos combined with the SeaChoice reference card.

 

Thanks for raising the issue!

 

Very important to us all and i too have written my MP about the subject. Get on board and make a change