Save Our Skeena Salmon

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Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
Langevin Block
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
pm@pm.gc.ca
Fax: (613) 941-6900

Dear Prime Minister:

BC needs the Conservatives to listen to us. We care about wild salmon ­ we want a moratorium on fishfarm expansion! We need to clear the farms out of the migration routes.

Ottawa has three things wrong:

• 1) BC’s wild salmon aren’t doomed. We have tens of millions of wild salmon. We won't stand by and let you choose fishfarms over our wild salmon!

   

• 2) Sea lice and disease problems in fishfarms can’t be managed. The evidence overwhelmingly shows fishfarms seriously harm wild stocks. You have to get them out of the migration routes.

   

• 3) BCers don’t want to risk our wild stocks. We know there are profits to be made from fishfarming but survey after survey show we care about our wild salmon more. Wild salmon are an important part of our economy and they are part of West Coast culture.

   

The federal government has the responsibility to protect our wild salmon and we want action.

Sincerely

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Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier
Room 156
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC
V8V 1X4
Fax: 250 387-0087
premier@gov.bc.ca (cc pat.bell.mla@leg.bc.ca)

Dear Mr. Campbell:

I am deeply concerned about finfish farms in our wild salmon migration routes.

I fail to understand why salmon farms are still located directly in the migratory path of our wild salmon runs. Scientists and the media have confirmed that sea lice thrive in and around fish farms and endanger young wild salmon and entire populations.

Using pesticides, fungicides, antibiotics and other chemicals to treat sea lice and a host of diseases and other problems caused by fish farming, is ineffective and only compounds the dangers facing these young wild salmon. I’m sure you are also aware that escaped farmed salmon further threaten the biological integrity of our precious wild salmon stocks.

I cannot condone these risks to our wild salmon and what the loss of this important natural resource would mean to future generations. I believe the questionable economic benefits of finfish farming to our communities do not warrant risking the valuable and irreplaceable wild salmon populations and therefore cannot be justified by the Liberal government or public officials.

I urge you to institute a moratorium on fishfarm expansion and get the existing farms out of the migration routes now!. 

Respectfully,

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