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Discovery Islands Salmon Farms to Close

Monday, December 21, 2020

VANCOUVER: Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan issued a decision today that may reverse the rapdily declining trend of Fraser River salmon stocks, including the commercially important sockeye and the endangered Chinook salmon relied on by Southern Resident Killer Whales. Wild salmon advocates at Living Oceans Society say the decision to keep salmon farms in the Wild Salmon Narrows (Discovery Islands) near Campbell River fallow means more wild salmon may avoid death from lice and disease pathogens proliferating around open net-pen salmon farms.

Clear the Coast 2019 Summary Report

Clear the Coast 2019

As you might guess from the photo, we faced unusual challenges this year from the weather! A southeast, winter-pattern storm closed in on us just after we arrived in Sea Otter Cove with half the crew on board our sailboat, Viajador. We feared that the balance of the crew, arriving by kayak the next day, would be unable to paddle; but they are a highly skilled and hardy lot and found enough of a break in the weather to round the point separating Sea Otter Cove from San Josef Bay and join us.

Living Oceans joins World’s Leading Aquatic Scientific Societies Urgently Calling for Cuts to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Friday, September 11, 2020

Vancouver:  In an unprecedented statement released today, Living Oceans joins the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and 110 aquatic scientific societies representing more than 80,000 scientists across the world to sound a climate change alarm.  The societies call for drastically curtailed global greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of man-made climate change to fish and aquatic ecosystems.

Discovery Islands Salmon Farms Must Go

Thursday, August 6, 2020

The effort to rid this coast of salmon farms is mounting as wild salmon runs collapse. An open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Horgan, released today, is signed by 37 commercial and sport fishing organizations, religious and environmental organizations, marine tourism operators and unions. They demand that both leaders deliver their on promises to remove salmon farms from B.C.

Building and Activating Wild Salmon Defenders

Education and outreach have been central to our salmon farming work over the years.  We have built a diverse alliance composed of environmentalists, First Nations, fishermen (both commercial and sport), labour and faith groups, tourism operators and more, all of whom are dedicated to the removal of salmon farms.  In 2020, we sent his Open Letter to the Prime Minister and Premier of British Columbia, in which the sectors came together in support of the

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