IMPORTANT ONLINE PETITION
TO END OCEAN SALMON FARMS

Another forum was kind enough to make a post regarding an important petition.  I thought I'd drag it over here cause Alberta's showing on the petition fails in comparison to BC.  Lets make it known that wild salmon and ocean fish stocks are more important that filling the pockets of fish farm owners.

 An online petition has been started to remove fish farms from our Canadian oceans. This petition has been sponsored by a Liberal member of Parliament, and is an officially registered petition with the Canadian House of Commons. If you are concerned about the impact of fish farming on our wild Salmon stocks please take the time to sign this online petition. I have posted the links to sign the petition, and the thread about the petition on the forum below.

https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-270

It takes all of a minute to fill out and just click the link in your email to make it official after you're done.

Save our oceans. 

I made this underwater video last year trying to feature the wild salmon stocks.  They need a break.

When BC starts caring about Alberta Oilsands and pipelines then maybe..

Until then...screw BC and their anti oil hippies..

Just so you're aware sonny the ocean is not BC's, it's a Canadian waterbody.  This is a Canada wide petition, east/west coast... not a BC thing. 

Just so you're aware the canadian government has already cut the Sport harvest of Halibut.  They are now as of this year considering cutting the sport harvest of Chinook Salmon.  This is Canada Fisheries, not BC.  The sportfisherman are losing ground over here on the west coast.  If you don't fish in Canadian waters I can understand your indifference.

On this issue of fish farming. I spend quite a bit of time on the west coast, fishing and just hanging out. We have a number of friends and family out there some work in this industry and rely on it for an income. I know there are people that keep throwing the doom and gloom out there about these farms but I would like to see the evidence that these farms are harming the natural stocks, it's just not there. 20 years ago when these things were just getting rolling it was nothing but doom and gloom. According to David Sazuki and his cult followers all native stocks were to be gone in 10 years, wiped out !! There was program after program on how these farms were going to be the demise of all salmon stocks on the west coast, but you know what, it hasn't happened.

Over the last 10 years there have been ups and downs in the runs, in the last couple years there have been record runs of Chinook and Coho and Pinks, where is the devastation that was supposed to take place. It's like most anything with these anti everything crowds it was bull shit that never happened.

The sport Chinook fishery you are talking about is a native issue not a fish run issue. The natives have lobbied the government our liberal government no doubt and are working on increasing their take while lowering the sport take. ( for those that don't know there is an allotted amount of fish that can be taken out of the ocean every year so each segment whether it be the US, Commercial boats, Natives or the sportfishing industry must devide that quota up.) so the Chinook issue is a Native one not a salmon farming on. And this closure you are talking about is for a period of time in the South Island area not the entire west coast.

Yes this is a Canadian issue taking place on Candian waters but believe me those west coasters beleive those are their fish and their attitude reflects it. I can go anywheres up and down the coast to fish I say good for them it's about time their own bull shit caught up with them and effects them. It's about time they get a taste of what it's like to have your industry be shut down. Like Sonny said they won't support us screw them.

As far as the fish farms go, it's better than having that fish being caught commercially. I support fish farms they are a badly needed form of employment on the west coast and the so called damage they do is just not there regardless of what the anti cult says.

Fish shit is fish shit, fish been shitting in the ocean since God created it ! You want to worry about what's going in that ocean how bout we remove the thousands of houses up and down that coast dumping their human shit in the ocean, how bout we remove Vancouver, Vistoria, Nanimo from the map and quit dumping all that shit in the rivers and oceans. Them natives up and down that coast that live on the reserves along the ocean every one of them their raw sewage goes right into the ocean then they cry that the shit from the white mans fish farms are ruining the ocean. How bout we stop farmers from pouring pounds after pound of pesticide in our rivers and lakes how bout we do that then we can look at removing a few fish farm from the ocean.