Cohen Commission Report gives many reasons to shut down ocean farms.
On November 1, the explosive Cohen Commission Report detailing the risks of the salmon farming industry was released, and yet this very minute the government of British Columbia is considering the renewal of salmon farm leases. We now have a huge opportunity. This is why I started a petition to stop the province from renewing these leases.
The Cohen Commission recommended salmon farms be prohibited if research finds more than minimal impact. We already have the science saying wild salmon decline everywhere there are salmon farms — this is a lot more than just minimal impact. During the press conference Judge Cohen himself concluded "that the potential harm posed to Fraser River sockeye salmon from salmon farms is serious or irreversible."
Judge Cohen himself concluded “that the potential harm posed to Fraser River sockeye salmon from salmon farms is serious or irreversible.”
Potentially irreversible! We cannot let these salmon farm leases be renewed. The government is already concerned about the Spring election and has not done nearly enough to protect our wild salmon, something British Columbian's hold near and dear.
Stopping the leases would be a major step towards protecting our wild salmon that are at great risk.
Please sign my petition and share it far and wide.
There is growing evidence of exotic viruses spilling out of salmon feedlots, infecting passing wild salmon. Justice Bruce Cohen just released recommendations of his 3 -year, $26 million federal inquiry into the Decline of the Fraser Sockeye, one of the world's largest wild salmon runs. Cohen cites risk of government favouring the interests of the salmon farming industry, he recommends fish farm siting regulations be expanded to include protection of wild salmon migration routes. Incredibly, Cohen calls for a freeze on farm salmon production where the Fraser sockeye migrate and that if research shows that salmon farms are having more than minimal impact on wild salmon, that the industry be prohibited from operating on the Fraser sockeye migration route.
The Province of British Columbia is poised to renew many salmon farm leases in the next few weeks. While Cohen's mandate was only the Fraser sockeye, they are no different from other wild salmon province-wide.
Premier, surely you do not want to risk the wild salmon of eastern Pacific in the face of these strong warnings by this federal inquiry. The Fraser River First Nations will have to be consulted now as salmon they have rights to are migrating through the effluent of exactly the salmon farms, Justice Cohen is saying must be prohibited if more than minimal risk is found.
You cannot renew the salmon farm leases throughout BC in good faith.
Deny salmon farm license renewals.
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