New research released October 2 shows parasitic sea lice from fish farms kill as many as 95 per cent of juvenile wild salmon that migrate past the farmed salmon open net cages.
Published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. and partly funded by the David Suzuki Foundation, the lead report says wild juvenile salmon migrate through ?a cloud of sea lice? around open net cage salmon farms.
Governments should now have all the proof they need to take action and move open net pen fish farming operations out of wild salmon areas to protect wild stocks from deadly sea lice infestations. The David Suzuki Foundation is pushing for transition to more responsible forms of aquaculture to protect wild salmon stocks.
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Write your government representatives, Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, the federal fisheries opposition critics and Prime Minister Harper to express your concerns about salmon farms.
Hearn.L@parl.gc.ca, Kamp.R@parl.gc.ca, Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca, Roy.J@parl.gc.ca, Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca and insist that they implement the changes needed to protect BC?s legacy of wild Pacific Salmon.
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