Video on Collapse of Salmon From Fish Farms, Glendale Grizzlies

In the Absence of Salmon

by Save Our Rivers Society

SORS is pleased to present a new film by POWERPLAY producer Damien Gillis, teaming with Save Our Rivers official spokesperson and longtime wild salmon advocate Rafe Mair.

 

 

 

 

The collapse of our wild salmon should be both a federal and provincial election issue - at the top of the agenda. Losing our salmon and the indigenous communities who depend on them would represent one of the greatest political failures in Canadian history - for all levels of government. Ask your candidates in the federal, municipal and provincial elections where they stand stand on fish farms and protecting our wild salmon, rivers and environment.

As esteemed fish biologist Alexandra Morton - along with partners from the eco-tourism and commercial fishing industries, and a large group of supporters - takes on the province's right to regulate and license fish farms in the BC Supreme Court, the Grizzlies in the Glendale River are starving amidst the collapse of a once prolific salmon run.

 

These grizzlies, who come to the Glendale River in Knight Inlet - home to more commercial fish farms than any other place on the coast - could expect up to a million salmon to return to this river less than a decade ago. This year there will be fewer than 10,000, leaving the bears to feed on sedge grass and what little marine critters they can find under rocks - in lieu of their staple salmon diet.

 

If there was any doubt that our salmon are in grave danger - and that fish farms continue to play a significant role in their devastation - it should have been erased by now. The evidence is too compelling - thanks to the tireless efforts of the salmon's protectors, people like Alexandra Morton, and a growing movement of indigenous peoples, commercial fisherman, tourism operators, local politicians, conservationists, and citizens of coastal communities who have seen what the loss of salmon is doing to their economy, environment and society.

 

 

 

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