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Nuchatlaht Nation Grieves the Damages to the Territory in the Wake of Grieg Seafood Fish Farm Oil Spill
Nuchatlaht Nation Grieves the Damages to the Territory in the Wake of Grieg Seafood Fish Farm Oil Spill
In June 2009, Living Oceans Society led the Finding Coral Expedition, a journey to the bottom of the sea on Canada’s Pacific coast in search of deep sea corals. Using one person submarines, a team of international scientists made 30 dives to depths of over 500 metres and saw giant coral forests, darting schools of fish, and a seafloor carpeted in brittle stars.
"We are well aware of the so-called debate over the impacts of salmon farms, but remember that we were on the farms, did the research, we are collaborating with many scientists – we know what is going on in these farms, and this is what happens to wild salmon when farm lice numbers go up," Homiskanis continued. "This has to stop." Read the full Campbell River Mirror article.
A devastating moment—not just for J36, but for the population as a whole. Pregnancies in this population fail at alarmingly high rates, tied closely to low prey abundance (especially Chinook salmon), pollution, and other stressors. Read the full CBC article.
“Shareholder resolution votes act as a barometer for investor sentiment,” said Kelly Roebuck, vice chair of Environment Tasmania and Sustainable Seafood campaign director at Living Oceans. “Last year, Woolworths faced one of the largest votes for a nature-risk resolution ever. Numerous institutional funds from Australia and abroad, representing millions of members, called for Woolworths to act for the skate.
It’s always a thrill to be able to report a good news story. The Fraser sockeye salmon return this year is an amazing gift: at nearly 10 million fish by today’s estimate, this run has outperformed expectations more than three-fold. DFO says it’s the best return on this cycle of sockeye since 1997. We do not believe it to be a co-incidence that industrial salmon farming reached its peak at about that time; or that today’s returning fish are among the first that did not have to run the gauntlet of salmon farms early in their migration.