Are our oceans now being privatized?!  Image Alex Morton May 20/08

1. •Embridge pipeline to BC’s coast?!
   

2. •September 2008, IWC meets behind closed doors.
   

3. •Updates about the 2008 International Whaling Commission meetings.

Without salmon

1. •News re. legal issues around BC wild salmon and the impacts of open net-cage aquaculture.  See news items from Feb 4th to 11th, 2009.
   

2. •Expansion of fish farming planned for the Broughton (Nov 2008). See map; background information from the Georgia Strait Alliance; petition
   

3. •Background and Action - includes signing of declaration and NY Times article on “Saving Salmon to Save Orca” (Alex Morton interview)
   

4. •Scientists meet to discuss status of killer whales
   

5. •Southern resident killer whales starving.
   

6. •Feds sued over refusal to protect resident killer whales (working against the Species at Risk Act).
   

7. •Glendale Grizzlies - nothing to eat. See video.
   

8. •Eco-groups sue Ottawa over orca habitat
   

9. •Southern Resident killer whales face extinction - experts warn
   

10. •Poem about the importance of salmon: Without Salmon
    

11. •Update on sea lice situation in BC (September 2008)
    

300,000 Atlantic Salmon escape in waters around Campbell River July 3rd, 2008)

Lice on fry - see images (May & June 2008)

May 7th, 2008

    Pro-salmon coalition takes B.C. to court over fish farms

    Chain of legal actions planned to fight fish farms

Background and further details see:

    Save our Salmon

    Adopt-a-Fry - summary of issues and action points

2007 Whaling Quotas:
Japan: 725 Minke, 50 Bryde, 100 Sei, 3 Fin,10 Sperm. 50 Humpback whales. (4 out of 6 of these species are listed as Endangered.) "To increase supplies of meat even further, the Japanese government recently legalised the killing and sale of whales entangled in fishing nets. Predictably, this led to a five-fold increase in 'accidental by-catch' in just six months." 
Norway: 1052 Minke whales
Iceland: 39 Minke whales (source: WDCS)

Further information on whaling
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Half hour recording (October 11th, 2007) from OrcaLab of humpbacks singing in Blackfish Sound, BC. Big download but so worth it.
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Makah tribe kill gray whale in act of unauthorized whaling Sept. 8th, 2007 
Statement by Makah tribe
Article about the death of the gray whale
Indictment of the illegal whalers (October 5th, 2007)
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Rescue of stranded humpback calf - Haida Gwaii; August 23rd, 2007
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T86 severed dorsal fin found (May 24th, 2007)
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Rare deep-sea "frilled shark" found off Japan - video; January 24th, 2007 Further photos from National Geographic 

Colossal squid caught off Antarctica  - February 23rd, 2007 (includes video)