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May 8 Rally for Wild Salmon - A Day We Won't Forget
The Canadian - May 13, 2010
Pesticide likely to lose potency against sea lice; Conference explores implications for harvest of salmon on West Coast
Times Colonist - May 11, 2010
Salmon Walk Ends
CHEK TV News - May 10, 2010
Fish Farm Protest draws big crowd
BC Local News - May 9, 2010
Fish-farm protesters march on Victoria
CBC News - May 8, 2010
Fish Farms Protest
Global BC News Hour - May 8, 2010
Protesters bring anti-fish-farm message to Victoria
Globe and Mail - May 8, 2010
Get Out Migration Photos
Fraser Riverkeeper - May 8, 2010
Fish farms should be on land: report
Vancouver Sun - May 7, 2010
Pure Salmon Campaign Gears up for Cermaq, Marine Harvest Shareholder Meetings
PR Newswire Press Release in WSJ - May 7, 2010
First-hand look at sea lice problem revealing
Courier-Islander - May 7, 2010
Wild Salmon Are Sacred
Courier-Islander - May 7, 2010
We can have salmon farming and wild salmon
Courier-Islander - May 7, 2010
Fish Farm Protest
‘A’ News Vancouver Island - May 4, 2010
Get Out Migration Commercial
CHEK TV - May 5, 2010
Qualicum Beach Extrodinaire and the Tofino Migrators: Day 10
Alexandra Morton on Vimeo - May 4, 2010
Land-based salmon farms make economic sense, report finds
The Globe and Mail - May 6, 2010
(Full report available here [PDF])
Walking to Victoria for wild salmon- May 8!
Common Sense Canadian - May 6, 2010
Powerful experience walking
Alexandra Morton blog - May 4, 2010
Why Alexandra Morton is walking to Victoria
CKNW - May 2, 2010
'Near-misses' alarm fish-farm foes
Times Colonist - May 2, 2010
Day 7-8, Courtenay Crowds to Fanny Bay Doves
Salmon are Sacred - May 1, 2010
The Get Out Migration; Why People Are Walking To Victoria For The Wild Salmon; Campbell River
You Tube - May 1, 2010
Stand Up for Pacific Salmon consumer campaign interview
EcoNews NPR - May 1, 2010
Saving the sacred salmon; walk for wild salmon supports land-based, closed containment fish farms
Common Ground blog - May 2010
Wild salmon advocates call for Cermaq chief’s resignation
Common Sense Canadian YouTube - April 30, 2010
It's time for change in fish farming, but it may have to be forced
Alberini Valley Times - April 30, 2010
Citizens for Wild Salmon Take on Marine Harvest
Common Sense Canadian YouTube - April 30, 2010
Campbell River Rally, Protest - Norwegian Fish Farms "Get Out"
Salmon Are Sacred - April 29, 2010
Agitators demand resignation of Cermaq CEO Geir Isaksen
Intrafish - April 29, 2010
Alex's Migration Meets Fish Farms in Wild Salmon Narrows
Calling from the Coast - April 28, 2010
Pure Salmon Campaign Urges Cermaq's CEO to Step Down, Hand Delivers Resignation Demand
Forbes - April 28, 2010
Alexandra Morton salmon fight
CHEK TV News - April 28, 2010
Walk for Wild Salmon from Tofino Day 1
YouTube - April 27, 2010
Fish Farm Fight
A News Vancouver Island You Tube - April 27, 2010
Paddlers trying to save wild salmon
Hope Standard - April 27, 2010
Walk for Wild Salmon Gets Rolling
Common Sense Canadian You Tube - April 27, 2010
Alexandra Morton breathes new life into private prosecutions
West Coast Environmental Law - April 27, 2010
Nimpkish to Sayward - Day 2-Day 4 of the Wild Salmon Migration
Salmon are Sacred - April 27, 2010
Alexandra Morton is a firebrand
William Shatner Twitter - April 26, 2010
Spare a thought for the salmon
Metro Canada - April 26, 2010
Island Highway Shut Down by Migrators – 'Namgis Send Off
Salmon are Sacred - April 24, 2010
Salmon are sacred
CTV/A-News - April 23, 2010
Activists begin migration for wild B.C. salmon
Intrafish - April 23, 2010
Two sides of SLICE
Intrafish - April 23, 2010
Pure Salmon Campaign Joins 'Migration' to Help Protect British Columbia's Wild Salmon
Boston Business Journal - April 22, 2010
Protesters of salmon farms on B.C. coast want them to relocate on land
Canadian Press - April 22, 2010
The Migration Begins! – The “Get out for wild salmon” video
Salmon are Sacred - April 22, 2010
Ottawa lays charges against fish-farming company; Justice Department takes over private prosecution launched by biologist
Vancouver Sun - April 21, 2010
Overwaitea Food Group closing the loop on farmed salmon; OFG first Canadian retailer to make closed containment salmon widely available
Living Oceans Society - April 21, 2010
Finally the laws of Canada applied to Norwegian salmon farmer
Alexandra Morton blog - April 20, 2010
Alexandra's Great "Get Out Migration"
Courier-Islander - April 16, 2010
Flood of applicants seek standing at probe into decline of Fraser River salmon
Globe and Mail - April 16, 2010
Farmed fish trouble for wild salmon in B.C.
Times-Colonist - April 15, 2010
NGO gets worldwide support for salmon ‘migration’ protest
Intrafish - April 15, 2010
AUDIO: Alex Morton Speaks to Damien Gillis About Walk for Wild Salmon
Common Sense Canadian - April 14, 2010
Get Out to support wild salmon
David Suzuki Foundation blog - April 14, 2010
Morton may testify before federal fisheries committee
The Tyee - April 14, 2010
B.C. bands seek class-action status to sue over fish-farm regulation
The Globe and Mail - April 13, 2010
Streams of support
SalmonAreSacred.org - April 13, 2010
Weston inviting salmon activist to Ottawa
Pique Newsmagazine - April 12, 2010
Campbell on Salmon Farms: Playing Dumb or Just Plain Dumb?
Common Sense Canadian - April 9, 2010
The Get Out Migration
The Xpress - April 8, 2010
Building a better fish farm
The Telegraph Journal - April 7, 2010
Sea lice hurting B.C. salmon
Capital News - April 1, 2010
The Challenges Faced by the Cohen Inquiry
The Common Sense Canadian - March 25, 2010
Time to take a stand
Alexandra Morton blog - April 5, 2010
The label may say cod, but the lab says something's fishy
Marketplace - April 2, 2010
Fish-farming tilapia in B.C.
BC Business - April 2, 2010
Protect this year’s outmigrating Salmon smolts!
Wild Salmon Circle - April 2010
Calls to save salmon from across the pond
The Globe and Mail - March 29, 2010
The tide is turning
Alexandra Morton blog - March 29, 2010
The new aquaculture: Lots of speculation, not much evidence
Vancouver Sun - March 29, 2010
When bears go fishing in the rainforest
Vancouver Sun - March 27, 2010
Inquiry into 2009 BC Sockeye salmon collapse is underway
Digital Journal - March 26, 2010
Enbridge dead in the water?
Living Oceans Society - March 2010
Sea Lice Issue Invades Legal Briefing
The Epoch Times - March 25, 2010
Why Technology Can't Save The Planet
The Mark - March 25, 2010
Norwegian Farms Poison the Wild Run
The Dominion - March 24, 2010
'GROUNDBREAKING' wild fish lobby report critical of fish farms; Call for immediate action (subscription required)
Seafood Intelligence - March 23, 2010
CAAR applauds Strathcona Regional District’s denial of zoning for Grieg seafood Gunner Point open net-cage salmon farm
Georgia Straight Alliance - March 23, 2010
Bountiful films’ “Alexandra’s Echo” wins at San Francisco Ocean Film Festival
Bountiful Films blog - March 22, 2010
Itinerary for Alex Morton’s Get Out Migration
Grass! Struggle - March 22, 2010
Taking a walk on the wild side
Intrafish - March 22, 2010
New Brunswick Should Not Be Exempted from New Federal Aquaculture Rules
Conservation Council of New Brunswick - March 22, 2010
BC Salmon farm expansion process cleared
Fish Farming Xpert - March 22, 2010
Fish-farm foe to walk the talk; Biologist Alexandra Morton aims to raise opposition to open-net pens
Times-Colonist - March 19, 2010
An honor not lightly given
Courier-Islander - March 19, 2010
Anne Murray: A tale of two fish in B.C.
Straight - March 18, 2010
Fish farming still isn't sustainable
Telegraph-Journal - March 18, 2010
DFO reverses decision on salmon farm expansion - Project will not go forward without a proper Environmental Assessment
Living Oceans Society - March 17, 2010
B.C. fish farm to be reviewed after lawsuit threat
Globe and Mail - March 17, 2010
The time has come
Rafe Mair blog - March 17, 2010
Judge warns against salmon farms
Lillooet News - March 17, 2010
Please, take care of our salmon, Mr. Kamp
Maple Ridge News - March 16, 2010
The Migration
Alexandra Morton - March 14, 2010
Sointula to Victoria walk planned to 'get out' fish farms
Courier-Islander - March 14, 2010
High sea lice numbers elevate concern over possible resistance to chemical treatments
Farmed and Dangerous - March 2010
Industry, pesticide producer pay for lice study
Courier-Islander - March 12, 2010
Groups call for emergency action on fish farms
Courier-Islander - March 10, 2010
Celia Brauer: Recovery of Fraser River sockeye calls for Olympian effort by inquiry
The Straight - March 8, 2010
B.C. fish farm ‘not negligent’ in escape
CBC News - March 8, 2010
Farmed salmon lice problems exaggerated 'millionfold' (subscription required)
Intrafish - March 8, 2010
Lousy Disinformation
Dissident Voice - March 8, 2010
What a week!
Alexandra Morton - March 7, 2010
Forecast not looking good for B.C.'s salmon stocks this year
The Vancouver Sun - March 6, 2010
Just let me know
Courier-Islander - March 5, 2010
Maybe the truth hurts
Courier-Islander - March 5, 2010
Public interest is not being very well served
The Courier-Islander - March 5, 2010
Wild Salmon Advocates Take Letter to Norwegian King at Olympic Nordic Ski Race
YouTube - March 4, 2010
Dirty secrets of farmed salmon: Raising salmon for consumption is wreaking havoc on wild fish populations - perhaps our bodies, too
News Review - March 4, 2010
Salmon run concerns
South Delta Leader - March 4, 2010
Safe, Sustainable Farmed Salmon?
Dr Weil - March 4, 2010
Chile's quake benefits B.C. salmon farmers
Alberni Valley Times - March 4, 2010
Plight of Pacific Salmon Uncertain
NBC News - March 3, 2010
NGOs win; force release of sea lice data in Canada (subscription required)
Intrafish - March 3, 2010
B.C. ordered to release data on farmed fish - Privacy czar tells province to make health files public
The Times Colonist - March 3, 2010
Federal government urged to protect B.C. wild salmon
The Globe and Mail - March 2, 2010
Ministry must release sea lice records, commissioner rules
The Vancouver Sun - March 2, 2010
Where are the salmon?
PCC Sound Consumer - March 2010
Wild Salmon Circle
VCommunity.tv - February 27, 2010
Cermaq: salmon farming foes ‘lack credibility’
Intrafish - February 25, 2010
Fending off critics, Cermaq reaches out to Canada Natives
Intrafish - February 25, 2010
Salmon-farm expansion draws lawsuit threat
Times Colonist - February 25, 2010
Salmon virus tilts scales in favour of British Columbia
The Globe and Mai - February 24, 2010
Open-net fish farms deserve blame
Lillooet News - February 24, 2010
Endless cycle of Fraser salmon inquiries
Times Colonist - February 24, 2010
Fish farms are a result of wild stock decline
Courier-Islander - February 19, 2010
Government fiddlers
Courier-Islander - February 24, 2010
The industrial model of aquaculture is unsustainable
Telegraph-Journal - February 24, 2010
More people want farmed salmon out of oceans
Times Colonist - February 24, 2010
'Unlikely' simply not good enough
Courier-Islander - February 24, 2010
Ecojustice threatens lawsuit against Ottawa over fish-farm expansion
The Globe and Mail - February 23, 2010
Morton: Sea lice becoming drug-resistant
The Tyee - February 23, 2010
Lobster death raises questions
CBC - February 18, 2010
Pesticides in bay cause of concern for local fisherman
Beyond Pesticides blog - February 18, 2010
Lobster death raises questions: Drug resistant sea lice in eastern Canada raise concerns over drug use
CBC News – February 18, 2010
Grieg Seafood chooses lower-risk approach
Campbell River Mirror – February 16, 2010
Aquaculture expansion in BC frozen until December 2010
Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform – February 12, 2010
Sea lice issues cause concern
Courier-Islander – February 12, 2010
Why do we still accept fish farms?
Oceanside Star – February 11, 2010
Marine Harvest labor dispute to be heard by human rights tribunal (subscription required)
Intrafish – February 9, 2010
Suzuki Foundation twists its facts
North Island Gazette – February 9, 2010
Another moratorium for fish farming
Campbell River Mirror – February 9, 2010
Loblaw focuses on 'sustainable' fish sources
Ottawa Citizen – February 6, 2010
Debunking our 'fetish of the fresh'
The Globe and Mail – November 24, 2009
Feds show some guts with fish
The Times – November 20, 2009
Socked: Another inquiry into vanishing stocks
The Economist – November 19, 2009
Fish being wiped out to feed farm animals, study says
Vancouver Sun – November 18, 2009
Harper orders judicial inquiry into collapse of B.C. salmon runs
Vancouver Sun – November 6, 2009
40,000 fish escape farm: Gillnetters near Sointula report catching Atlantic salmon
Times Colonist – October 24, 2009
Marine Harvest sued for seizing salmon
FI S – September 18, 2009
Fraser River sockeye fry had little chance because of fish farms
Times Colonist – September 7, 2009
Millions of missing fish signal crisis on the Fraser River
The Globe and Mail - August 13, 2009
Chain of legal actions' planned to fight fish farms
The Globe & Mail - May 7, 2008
Opponents call for end to fish farms
The Globe & Mail - May 6, 2008
International Call for an End to Open-Net Salmon Farms
In an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Gordon Campbell,18 scientists warned that sea lice transfers from salmon farms to migrating juvenile wild salmon are causing wild salmon population declines in several countries including Canada, Norway, Scotland and Ireland.
International Call for an End to Open-Net Salmon Farms
In an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Gordon Campbell,18 scientists warned that sea lice transfers from salmon farms to migrating juvenile wild salmon are causing wild salmon population declines in several countries including Canada, Norway, Scotland and Ireland.
Closed Containment as a Solution and Pure Salmon Trip to Pressure Marine Harvest Highlighted in Recent Canadian News Broadcast
Video Presentation to Cermaq
Watch Alexandra Morton's Presentation for the 2007 Cermaq Annual General Meeting.
Wilderness Tourism Association Bears Witness in Norway
Norwegian Government urged to protect wild salmon from Cermaq’s open net pen salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago.
Committee Calls For Closed-Containment Salmon Farms
Salmon farms in B.C., including those in Clayoquot Sound, must begin growing fish inside ocean-based closed-containment pens in five years, says a report released by a legislative committee.
51 Sea Lions Found Dead at a Canadian Salmon Farm
On April 20, 2007 Creative Salmon Company, Ltd. reported that 51 California sea lions drowned at its salmon farming operation in the Tofino-area of British Columbia, Canada.
Filmmaker and Biologist Bear Witness to Sea Lion Drowning on a Salmon Farm
Broughton Archipelago fish farm net claims dolphin, porpoise and sea lion. - Watch a video clip taken by independent filmmaker Twyla Roscovich featuring biologist Alexandra Morton. *note the sea lion footage begins on 4:26
'No debate' that fish farms kill wild salmon, says B.C. scientist
B.C.'s leading critics of open-net fish farming say there's no question that sea lice from salmon farms kill wild salmon.
Fish farming for the future
AgriMarine Industries have spent the past six years developing a floating, closed-containment aquaculture system. The company aims to address the problems of disease transfer, fish escapes, and fish waste that have plagued the Canadian fish-farming industry over the last decade.
There Is Growing Community Opposition to a Salmon Farm in Nova Scotia's Port Mouton Bay
Concern about the local marine environment cited as reason for opposition in a letter from the mayor of Queens County to the minister of fisheries and aquaculture.
Pure Salmon Campaign gets exposure in the International Herald Tribune
Pan Fish urged to stop exporting environmental problems and bad labor practices
The Pure Salmon Campaign will file a shareholder resolution at Pan Fish's annual general meeting in Stavanger Norway on May 30 asking the company to adopt closed containment technology to remedy environmental impacts on salmon farms. Accompanied by two First Nations leaders from Canada and a Chilean, the campaign plans on providing first-hand accounts of how Pan Fish's operations are exporting environmental problems and poor labor conditions to other countries.
New Mercury Concerns for Wild Fish Near Salmon Farms
A study published on-line today in Environmental Science and Technology revealed elevated levels of mercury in rockfish living near salmon farms in British Columbia. It concludes that elevated levels of mercury in rockfish, up to three-fold in some cases (near farms only), was attributable to food web changes and higher mercury levels in rockfish prey near salmon farms. The fish and invertebrates eaten by rockfish obtained mercury via waste feed and fish feces, and through the action of bacteria which transform elemental mercury under farms into methylmercury, a form of mercury that accumulates in aquatic food chains.
Pure Salmon Questions Panfish and Marine Harvest Merger
The Pure Salmon Campaign asked competition authorities in Norway, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Commission to exercise special rigor when considering the merger of Panfish and Marine Harvest. The merger of two of the largest salmon farming companies raises concerns that a monopolized industry, by nature, will be less responsive to consumer and community concerns than a competitive industry.
Find out more:
FTC Petition Slams Salmon Ad Promoting Unsafe Food to Pregnant Women
Pure Salmon has filed a truth-in-advertising complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the trade association of farmed salmon producers for deceptive advertising that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine encouraging pregnant women to eat chemical laden farm-raised salmon.
The six-page ad, paid for by the trade association Salmon of the Americas (SOTA), made extensive claims about the health benefits of farmed salmon for pregnant women and their babies. The ad proclaims "Ocean-Farmed Salmon — just what the doctor ordered" under a picture of a pregnant woman.
Pure Salmon submitted a petition asking the FTC to stop SOTA from using false and misleading information in their ads and has dozens of scientific studies cited to support its claim, including a peer-reviewed paper published just last year in the Journal of Nutrition.
This study was a follow-up to the ground-breaking January 2004 study of toxins in farm-raised salmon in the journal Science. The Journal of Nutrition study found that women of childbearing age, expectant and nursing mothers, and young children should minimize their consumption of farm-raised salmon in favor of other sources of omega-3 fats.
More than 30 Scientists from Around the World Express Concern About Current Farming Methods
At the same time, the Pure Salmon Campaign will release a statement signed by more than thirty U.S., European, Canadian, and other international scientists communicating their concerns about the salmon aquaculture industry.
Salmon of the Americas ad is enough to make you sick!
For more on Health and Contaminants:
"Boston Legal" Features the Problem of Sea Lice in British Columbia
You saw it on Boston Legal, now get the science behind the ugly parasitic problem that is plaguing salmon all over the world. Salmon farms with open cages of densely packed salmon are a breeding ground for parasitic sea lice. Schools of sea lice spread out around salmon farms and infect wild juvenile salmon as they pass by the perimeters of the farms.
Sea lice feed on the mucus, scales, and blood of the host fish and can be fatal to salmon, especially to the young fish that are more vulnerable because of their size. For more, read what scientists have to say about sea lice and the other environmental problems associated with salmon aquaculture. Or, view a video clip of an expert putting the problem in human terms ("...it would be the same as you having a fifty-pound lice chewing through your back.") [.mov, 2.8 megs]
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