Save Our Skeena Salmon

We have won a respite.  The fishfarms planned for the estuary of the Skeena, Canada's second largest salmon river, are on hold.   But for how long?  Millions of dollars are being spent in one-sided promotion of fishfarms to BC First Nations and others.  The southcoast operations are being expanded.   We need a BC moratorium on fishfarm expansion NOW!

The Skeena's Pink and Sockeye runs are millions strong. The huge Chinook and Steelhead are world renowned! Industry wants to place three huge farms right into their outmigration route with more to follow.

Our declaration is no longer a signable petition but look at the thousand who signed, and read their  comments here.

"We, the undersigned, who are

concerned about the Skeena Watershed

and North Coast Region, insist

that the governments of

British Columbia and Canada

immediately place a moratorium on

any further expansion of

open net cage finfish farms

on the coast of British Columbia."

Save Our Skeena Salmon is the Prince Rupert Environmental Society's campaign to keep open net salmon farms out of the approaches to the Skeena River. We believe that the introduction of open-net salmon aquaculture to this region represents an unacceptable threat to the wild salmon who flourish here and the fisheries which depend on them. In our view, there is overwhelming evidence that when open net salmon farms are introduced near wild salmon migration routes, wild salmon stocks are severely impacted. This is indeed what happened after salmon aquaculture was introduced to the coasts of Norway, Scotland, Ireland and the southern coast of British Columbia.