Filed for publication with the Mirror
Dear. Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
I have recently watched the film “Salmon Confidential” produced by Twyla Roscovich about wild salmon acquiring diseases from salmon farms on the B.C. coast. I also saw on Global TV news that they have successfully made a closed containment operation near Port McNeil on Vancouver Island. I support the courageous work of Alexandra Morton who has worked tirelessly to have the open nets removed from the wild salmon migration routes on the B.C. coast in order to save the wild stocks of salmon,but has run into roadblock after roadblock from the fish farm companies and from your government that appears to be in the aquaculture industry’s pocket. I believe there is plenty of scientific evidence proving the diseases to wild salmon exist as a result of open net salmon farms.
Now that there is a closed containment model in operation – that could be expanded and would ensure saving our wild salmon from diseases that will ultimately spell their extinction – will your government move to close the open net farming operations or will you continue to block the way (Muzzling DFO scientists, refuting the clear evidence of disease in tests conducted by independent laboratories, denying the science and letting the wild salmon stocks disappear for good)?
Graham Auger
Campbell River
