Racing a Virus
On the pathogen front — farm salmon science has become dangerously polarized, but the difference of opinion on the impact of piscine reovirus infected in farm salmon on wild salmon is split with all...
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Voices for Wild Salmon: Played for Fools
My recent research into government regulation has been a shock even to me. No one in government is looking after wild salmon. Even though I have been “assured” repeatedly that measures are in place to...
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More European ISA Virus Detected in Wild BC Salmon
Today I received reports from two laboratories. Dr. Are Nylund at the University of Bergen, Norway confirmed the ISA virus detection by Canadian lab, Dr. Fred Kibenge, in Rivers Inlet sockeye smolts....
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Viral Outbreak in Salmon Farm
On May 15 Mainstream, owned by Cermaq, which is largely owned by the Norwegian government announced their farm at Dixon Island, Clayoquot Sound is positive for IHN virus. This is different from the...
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Is Truth a Tactic?
On October 15, 2012, Anissa Reed and I purchased an Atlantic salmon from Sobey’s supermarket in Truro, Nova Scotia, we had no idea what series of events would follow. When we examine salmon we always...
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Standing with the Dzawada’enuxw
If you had evidence that a flu-like virus, known to kill salmon, was seeping into the ocean, that government was turning a blind-eye and the industry involved had hired the same strategic advisor as...
View ArticleThe Right to Test for Pathogens in Farmed Salmon
Last December, my lawyer Greg McDade made a prediction that was recorded in the Cohen Commission testimony – that within 12 months the federal government would attempt to strip the lab I am using to...
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Salmon Feedlots: This Was Not a Mistake
The United Fisherman’s and Allied Workers Union UFAWU published a newspaper called The Fisherman. This publication chronicled the arrival of salmon feedlots onto the BC coast. Writers like Geoff Meggs...
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Will Courts Halt Diseased Farmed Salmon in Public Waters?
On May 7, I launched a lawsuit against the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Harvest in the Federal Court of Canada for the illegal transfer of diseased Atlantic salmon into net pens on the Fraser...
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Norway Take Your Lice and Go Home
As spring comes to the BC coast, young wild salmon are leaving the rivers where they were born and entering the ocean. Our pink and chum salmon take an exceptional gamble – they don’t spend a year in...
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The Beginning of the End of Salmon Farming in BC
When the Province of British Columbia recently issued the biggest salmon farm expansion in over a decade, they knew the public were not onboard with the decision. A petition with over 110,000...
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Marine Harvest SLAPPed back
On September 23, 2016 Marine Harvest sued Alexandra Morton and John and Jane Doe and All other Persons Unknown for trespass, nuisance and damages. On November 16, 2016, I joined three hereditary...
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