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I have had the honour and pleasure to know whale researcher Aleaxandra
Morton for a good many years now. She is one of the most selfless women of
distinction working to protect ocean creatures living on the coast today.
I urge you to read her urgent plea -- and act. Please use the email
addresses below her letter to send a message to B.C. politicians to desist
from siting (or relocating) any more farms in one of B.C.'s recreational &
biological gems -- the Broughton Archipelago. It's time to say NO! to the
death and disease wrought on wild waters and species by marine-sited
netcage fish farms. (Please Circulate) -- Howard Breen / Georgia Strait
Alliance
  
  
  
  
Hello From the Broughton Archipelago:
   
 For the past 13 years I have watched the degradation of a bountiful
archipelago where I have been living and studying whales.  
  
  
   Salmon farms moved in here in 1987 and since then toxic algae blooms
have become annual events,  Atlantic salmon covered in sores are in Pacific
streams,  killer whales were displaced for many years due to the acoustic
harassment devices on farms,  previously unheard of epidemics now plague
the wild salmon enhancement facility,  sludge has buried prime prawn
habitat,  populations of wild salmon and their prey have plummeted and the
community of humans is so low our school is threatened with closure.  In a
word the affect of salmon farming has been disastrous.
  
 Through the concerted efforts of many individuals and organizations we
were able to inspire a moratorium, but that has been lifted and today the
government is considering the request of salmon farmers to place even more
farms in this ecosystem which is already approaching collapse.
  
 As is customary,  there will be a chance for the public to respond to
these new salmon farm sites, but I have attended many of these meetings
over the years and not one has been productive.   
  
  
 The next meeting is on Tuesday, May 16th  in a small town at the north end
of Vancouver Island called Port McNeill at the Haida-Way Inn.   I know many
of you may be half a globe away, but I would like to ask a favour.   Could
anyone who is knowledgeable about the impact of salmon farms in coastal
fjord-type environments please email the BC Cabinet (below) and the key
MLAs in the opposition benches?
  
 I don't know how many places on earth can be destroyed by corporate
activity before we are no longer a viable species, but my sense is that we
are close to that number now.
  
 Thank you for your consideration,
  
  Alexandra Morton
 wildorca_at_capescott.net
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 Gordon.Campbell.mla_at_leg.bc.ca; 
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Christy.clark.mla_at_leg.bc.ca; 
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            hbreen_at_georgiastrait.org ;
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            Duwillia_at_nanaimo.env.gov.bc.ca ;
  
Michael Kundu, Executive Director

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