Farmageddon and the Spin-doctors
They [the fish-farm industry] said Atlantics wouldn’t escape. They escaped. Then they said they might escape but wouldn’t survive. We found them in the sea. Then they said they wouldn’t go into river...
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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....
View ArticleWhen a Non-Profit Gets in Bed with the Enemy
It’s huge – asymmetrical, shaped like two fat boomerangs meeting in midair at their mouths. The benefactors call it a campus. NBBJ architects had to design a colossal office complex of 900,000 square...
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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 ArticleCommission Recognizes Danger of Salmon Farms to Wild Salmon
The report from the Cohen Inquiry into the dramatic decline of the Fraser River Sockeye in 2009 was finally released on October 31. The Inquiry took 2 ½ years, reviewed an enormous amount of material...
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...
View ArticleSalmon Confidential
The documentary Salmon Confidential lays bare a massive ongoing cover-up over the effects of disease-bearing salmon farming operations in British Columbia, Canada that are imperiling the wild salmon...
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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...
View ArticleOf British Petroleum, “British” Columbia, and the Salmon Derby
I’m lucky to live here in British Columbia where the waters are free from oil rigs and pipelines. – Carin Bondar, lucky Vancouver writer Carin Bondar, a worried but reconciled Vancouver writer,...
View ArticlePublic Prevented from Knowing about Diseased Farmed Salmon
SOINTULA, BC — The first scientific publication on the occurrence of piscine reovirus outside of Norway was published on July 11 in Virology Journal. The report, Whole-genome analysis of piscine...
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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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Lax Kw’alaams Rejects Billion-dollar LNG deal
The BC Liberal government and LNG industry suffered a blow this week with a final losing vote amongst Lax Kw’alaams Band members over a billion-dollar package offered to support Petronas’ Pacific...
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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...
View ArticlePublic Pressure and Allies in Congress Keep “Rider” Blocking State Labeling...
Center for Food Safety praises Congress for not including a policy rider in the must-pass federal omnibus spending bill that would have blocked states from implementing mandatory genetically engineered...
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Science, Industry, and Salmon
As a scientist, I am dismayed by the common tactic of pleading scientific uncertainty as an excuse for continuing to allow people or companies to do things known to harm salmon. — geomorphologist David...
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“Yes” to Wild Salmon; “No” to BC Premier’s Name Calling
Read Part 1. LAX KXEEN — The Salmon Nation Summit led to an emphatic declaration: The undersigned First Nation leaders and citizens of the Nine Allied Tribes of Lax Kw’alaams hereby declare that Lelu...
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