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5月29日 Received RE: Fish Farm Public Hearing, Sayward, BCHi Deb, The submissions with respect to Bylaw No. 29 are currently being tallied, copied and packaged for distribution to the Regional Board members that will be voting on Bylaw No. 29. As a result, I am unable to provide you with the number of submissions received at this time. The attendance sheets for the public hearing were completed by a total of 219 people. Minutes of the public hearing will be posted on the Strathcona Regional District website (www.strathconard.ca) along with all of the submissions that were received. This will likely occur over the next two weeks as it will take considerable staff time to convert all of the submissions into electronic format. The submissions received as a result of the first public hearing on April 14, 2009 are available for review on the website. Bylaw No. 29 will be considered for third reading by the Regional Board at its meeting on June 25, 2009. Thank you. Jeff Long, BES, MCIP 301 - 990 Cedar Street Campbell River, BC V9W 7Z8 Hi Deb: The hall was packed in Sayward, with close to 300 people. There were a lot of people for both sides, and the hearing went until midnight. Grieg stacked the hall and speakers list early, and some of our supporters from Quadra Island had to leave to catch a ferry and did not get to speak. They did however make written submissions. The submissions should be up on the Strathcona Regional District soon, if they are not already. The vote will take place on June 25th, and we will do an update at that time. We need 2 of the 4 directors to vote no in order to defeat the zoning bylaw. Fingers crossed... Regards, Michelle Young Salmon Aquaculture Campaigner Georgia Strait Alliance 195 Commercial St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G5 www.GeorgiaStrait.org
5月27日 the voices will grow in number to protect wild salmonMay 27
the voices will grow in number to protect wild salmonit's almost 10 in BC the 27th of May
the public hearing may close in Sayward
the voices will grow in number
to protect wild salmon
worldwide
link to protect wild salmon WRITE TODAY! PUBLIC HEARING, BC: OPPOSE FISH FARMS!THE ESTUARY IS A BIRTHING PLACE FOR SALMON AND AN INFINITE NUMBER OF SPECIES. THE SALMON INDUSTRY IS A MAINSTAY IN BC AND MUST BE PROTECTED.
ESPECIALLY FROM FISH FARMS. ALSO FROM DEVELOPMENT.
THE FISH FARM APPLICATIONS ARE TO BE HEARD TODAY. THIS NEWS JUST IN FROM NORWAY FROM ALEXANDRA MORTON MAY INFLUENCE YOU TO WRITE NOW!
THIS PUBLIC HEARING
HAPPENS TODAY MAY 27TH 2009! At the request of Grieg Seafood, citing that the company has new information to submit, another zoning hearing has been scheduled by the Strathcona Regional District. This is the last hurdle for these two fish farms and we must stop them here. Make your opposition heard. Urgent Action: Participate in the Zoning Hearing for
the Proposed Yorke Island and Gunner Point Fish Farms
Strathcona Regional District Public Hearing: May 27th, 7 pm Sayward Heritage Community Hall 1257 Sayward Road, Sayward, BC Written Submissions: Due May 27, 4:30 pm Refer to: Bylaw 29, Quadra Island Zoning Bylaw, Amendment 95 Refering to: Bylaw 29, Quadra Island Zoning Bylaw, Amendment 95
To Whom It May Concern & J. Long
Strathcona Regional District 301-990 Cedar Street Campbell River, BC V9W 7Z8 Strathcona Regional District 301-990 Cedar Street Campbell River, BC V9W 7Z8 This letter is just in from Alexandra Morton. I submit it to this Public Hearing to further appeal to you in my request that: the application be opposed for the Proposed Yorke Island and Gunner Point Fish Farms. Bylaw 29, Quadra Island Zoning Bylaw, Amendment 95 The company, Norwegian Fish Farms Grieg Seafood ASA Post address P.O. 234 Sentrum N-5804 Bergen Norway must not be allowed to decimate the wild pacific salmon stocks, and other marine life, as has been done in Norway. Please stop this from happening here in BC. Oppose the proposed Yorke Island and Gunner Point Fish Farms as do I and others worldwide. Sincerely Deb Squamish BC [fishermenlist] Trip to Norway
Message from Alexandra Morton in Norway, disease and sea lice are not under control in Norwegian salmon farms and BC stands to lose all I have been in Norway for 10 days because 92% of fish farming in British Columbia is Norwegian owned. I have met with many Norwegian scientists, members of the Mainstream and Marine Harvest boards, been to their AGMs, toured the area with fishermen, examined a closed-containment facility, met the Norwegians fighting for their fish and joined a scientific cruise. I thought Norway had this industry handled and I expected to learn how marine salmon farming could work, but this has not been the case. My eyes have really been opened. This industry still has major issues that are growing and has no business expanding throughout the temperate coastlines of the world. The way they have been treating sea lice in Norway has caused high drug resistance. The only solution in sight is increasingly toxic chemicals. In the past two years (2007, 8) sea lice levels have actually increased on both the farm and wild fish. The scientists I met with are holding their breath to see if drug-resistant sea lice populations will explode and attack the last wild salmon and sea trout. The same treatment methods have been used in BC and we can expect this to occur as well. I am not hearing how the industry can possibly safeguard British Columbia from contamination with their ISA virus. Infectious Salmon Anemia is a salmon virus that is spreading worldwide, wherever there are salmon farms. In Chile, the Norwegian strain of ISA has destroyed 60% of the industry, 17,000 jobs and unmeasured environmental damage. The industry is pushing into new territory. If this gets to BC no one can predict what it will do to the Pacific salmon and steelhead, it will be unleashed into new habitat and we know this is a very serious threat to life. Professor Are Nylund head of the Fish Diseases Group at the University of Bergen, Norway, reports that, “based on 20 years of experience, I can guarantee that if British Columbia continues to import salmon eggs from the eastern Atlantic infectious salmon diseases, such as ISA, will arrive in Western Canada. Here in Hardangerfjord we have sacrificed our wild salmon stocks in exchange for farm salmon. With all your 5 species of wild salmon, BC is the last place you should have salmon farms.” New diseases and parasites are being identified. The most serious is a sea lice parasite that attacks the salmon immune system. There is concern that this new parasite is responsible for accelerating wild salmon declines. The Norwegian scientists agree with many of us in BC. If you want wild salmon you must reduce the number of farm salmon. There are three options. The future for salmon farming will have to include:
There are many people here like me. I met a man who has devoted his life to the science of restoring the Voss River, where the largest Atlantic salmon in the world, a national treasure, have vanished due to sea lice from salmon farms. Interestingly he is using the method I was not allowed to use last spring... Towing the fish past the farms out to sea. Another man is working with scientists and communities to keep the sea trout of the Hardangerfjord alive. There are so many tragic stories familiar to British Columbia. The corporate fish farmers are unrelenting in their push to expand. With Chile so highly contaminated with the Norwegian strain of ISA all fish farmed coasts including Norway are threatened with expansion. I made the best case I could to Mainstream and Marine Harvest for removing the salmon feedlots from our wild salmon migration routes, but they will not accept that they are harming wild salmon. They say they want to improve, but they don’t say how. Norway has different social policies which include encouraging people to populate the remote areas and so fish farming seemed a good opportunity to these people. BC has the opposite policy, but the line that fish farms are good for small coastal communities has been used in BC anyway. I have not seen any evidence that it has even replaced the jobs it has impacted in wild fisheries and tourism. It is becoming increasingly clear to protect wild Pacific salmon from the virus ISA the BC border absolutely has to be closed to importation of salmon eggs immediately and salmon farms MUST be removed from the Fraser River migration routes and any other narrow waterways where wild salmon are considered valuable. Our letter asking government that the Fisheries Act, which is the law in Canada be applied to protect our salmon from fish farms has been signed by 14,000 people to date at www.adopt-a-fry.org <http://www.adopt-a-fry.org> has still not been answered. Please forward this letter and encourage more people to sign our letter to government as it is building a community of concerned people word wide and we will prevail as there is really no rock for this industry to hide under and longer. Alexandra Morton 5月16日 Dreamin' ON!May 16
Dream ON!Hello
Gordon Campbell locked the doors when I tried to deliver our letter and left us on the street. Campbell has been re-elected and at first I thought this meant BC does not actually want wild salmon, nor their rivers. I began to make plans to give up and get my own life back in order, but then someone forwarded me this map. The ridings with wild salmon and wild salmon rivers, did not actually elect Campbell. Thousands of people have told me they want wild salmon and have wished me success in this, but at every BC election a handicap is laid on us who are trying to do this. I am writing to say people cannot wave from the sidelines any longer, because we are not succeeding. Wild salmon are going extinct on our watch. Yes, yes climate change will be a factor, but wild salmon are built to survive cataclysmic change in their environment and if we allow their genetic warehouse to rebuild right now, we stand a far better chance of receiving the food and energy this fish brings to us in the years to come. Grieg Seafood is trying to build two of the biggest fish farms on the coast, on the juvenile salmon migration route for Fraser River and East Vancouver Island stocks, at York Island. Marine Harvest is trying to increase the size of their “farms” coastwide. They are taking me back to court this summer to resolve whether they own their fish in the Canadian Ocean. Atlantic salmon eggs are still being imported into BC, despite the Infectious Salmon Anemia virus popping up everywhere the Norwegian salmon farmers operate. Emamectin benzoate (Slice) is being used in our waters....with no warnings posted during usage...even though the U.S. Food and Drug Agency apparently has a ban on any food products “exposed” to this neurotoxin (Pacific Fishing current issue). This means all of us who are fishing, and harvesting seafood near fish farms have no way to make sure we are not “exposed” to the drug. And the fish feedlots are in violation of many sections of the Fisheries Act. Not only is there no progress, we are moving backwards. I am headed to Norway next week, but doubt anyone is listening there either. I can only see two ways forward.... The courts..... And for us all to step up and say “no more.” The solution is so simple: Apply the laws of Canada, The Fisheries Act. If the Norwegians can’t comply they should leave. Give the Canadian fish farmers who want to revamp their industry in closed tanks a break in getting set up. Market wild and farm fish to raise the value of both. And restore wild salmon in a way that has never been tried.....adhering to their biology, the natural laws that have caused them to thrive in the first place. And we need everyone who wants wild salmon to sign this letter. Currently we are at 14,000.....and we are still on the street, this was not enough to even get in the door. It is up to you guys. Alexandra Morton 5月7日 Delivery of petition to G. Campbell NOT Allowed
5月1日 BC ELECTION BC POLITICAL WILLHello All, Here in British Columbia we are in the last two weeks of electing a Provincial government and this will have critical affect on wild salmon due to privatization of rivers and ocean spaces, even schools of fish. Many of you received responses from the BC government currently in power, the “Liberals,” headed by Premier Gordon Campbell. They said the BC government is not allowed to intervene in the Appeal of the Constitutional Challenge I won regarding fish farms. This is not correct they do have this power. I have written a response on the website www.adopt-a-fry.org It is becoming very clear that while the current BC government has allowed the salmon feedlots to expand despite the science, public outcry and impact on rural economies they realize they are a political liability and thus are making every effort to distance themselves from the industry. There are simple answers to this mess which now threatens the entire eastern Pacific and the BC economy. Aquaculture is not the problem, the problem is lack of political will. Alaskan salmon have political will on their side and they are thriving For those of you in B.C. please view this film below and vote. The existence of wild salmon depends very much on this election. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPuJfbS2qMY I apologize for the number of emails, but if we want wild salmon we all need to act now. Alexandra Morton |
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