Salmon Conservation

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Further Fish Information

Salmon education programmes (Salmonids in the Classroom)

Impacts of bottom trawling - video from Living Ocean’s Society

Concerns regarding threats to BC’s wild Salmon  

1. •  Latest news
   

2. •   Watershed Watch’s brilliant animation of the pink salmon’s life cycle and potential transmission of sea lice from open net-cage salmon farms.
   

3. •Save our Salmon - summary of issues and latest threats; collection of videos relating to threats to wild salmon.
   

4. •   Saving Salmon to Save Killer Whales - Alex Morton’s story in the New York Times (November 2008)
   

5. •    Play the 7 minute video: "Alexandra Morton's Salmon Fight - Biologist says fish farms are harming wild salmon" (Nov, 2009)
   

6. •  Images of sea lice on smolts and a summary of concerns relating to current practices in Atlantic salmon open net fish-farming
   

7. •    Adopt-a-Fry - summary of issues and action points
   

8. •    Global Action - international action against unsustainable salmon aquaculture.
   

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10. •   David Suzuki Foundation
    

11. •    Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform “Farmed and Dangerous”
    

12. •    Industry’s perspective:  “Marine Harvest”
    

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Fish species other than salmon
Basking Shark recognized as being COSEWIC "Endangered" (May 1st, 2007).  They used to be abundant off the coast of British Columbia but we slaughtered them from 1955 to 1969 since they were getting caught in gill nets (organized cull by the Department of Fisheries).  The last sighting of one is BC was off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 2005.  More information. 

Basking shark information from David Suzuki Foundation. Will government accept endangered designation?

Excerpt from “Basking Sharks - the Slaughter of BC’s Gentle Giants” (Wallace & Gisborne”

Rockfish - great facts, video and game from the Vancouver Aquarium

Sea Grant brochure showing images of rockfish with barotrauma and how they can be repressurized.

Fish Video