Scientist: BC Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon

From the common sense department:

2006–10-20 (CBC News) ‘No debate’ that fish farms kill wild salmon, says B.C. scientist

The independent scientific community speaks with a single voice with regards to sea lice and their impact on wild salmon. Salmon farms kill wild salmon. There’s no debate around that. It’s been known and acknowledged in Europe for more than a decade.Dr. John Volpe, University of Victoria

The committee is wrapping up its hearings after seven months and thousands of witnesses, and is expected to make its report to the legislature next spring. (Why so long? Because Gordon Campbell says there’s nothing to talk about, so he’s locked the legislature for the fall.)

It should be noted that Patrick Moore, former Greenpeace warrior, is on the side of the fish-farming industry. Contradiction? Or sell out, as many environmentalists claim, citing Moore’s support for the nuclear industry, logging, the plastics industry and genetically modified foods to name a few of his controversial about-faces. Wired magazine in 2004 published an interesting article about Moore entitled Eco-Traitor.

Its only a matter of time before we see Rona Ambrose or Stephen Harper share the same stage as Moore. Watch for it.

For the record, I have never knowingly purchased or eaten farmed salmon. When we eat out, if the restaurant can’t assert that its wild, we don’t order salmon.

Organizing boycotts of products and industries is going to become a “growth industry” in itself, and soon, I believe.