Rally During the Games to Save Wild Salmon
When: Saturday, February 20th – 1:00 PM
Where: Vanier Park, behind the Planetarium
Calling all friends of wild salmon,
It’s time once again to stand up for wild salmon! More than 90% of fish farms in BC are owned by Norwegian companies. While the eyes of the Norwegian media are focused on Vancouver during the Olympics, let’s shine some light on the devastation that these farms are causing to our wild salmon runs.
Last summer less than 10% of the expected wild sockeye returned. Time is running out on our salmon.
Our last rally in October had over 600 people. Let’s make this into an Olympic sized rally.
Featuring the following speakers:
- Otto Langer - Former DFO Senior Biologist and Manager
- Shannon Ellis - Grizzly Viewing Guide & Wilderness Tourism Association
- Don Staniford - Global Coordinator, The Pure Salmon Campaign
- Chief Bob Chamberlain - Chair of First Nations Leadership Council Aquaculture Working Group
And as always with any Wild Salmon Circle event, there will be a direct action that you can participate in. Join us for the fun and festivities on Saturday February 20th!
Please spread the word to your email networks. You can also download the following pdf to print out and distribute to your friends and work mates: Feb20 Salmon Rally Promo
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All the best to you folks out on the coast and Wild Salmon Circle in your endeavour to save and protect our wild fish stocks.
I’m not against fish farms, just where they now place them and what they put in them. Not in the ocean and not with Atlantic salmon.
May this rally generate the exposure required to correct this travesty.
Cronzy
I am visiting from another country and am not familiar with the Park nor Planetarium.
It would be helpful to list an address.
The rally is at: 1100 Chestnut Street in Vancouver
I wish you well and support you. There are a lot of fish farms here in scotland too, and it seems to me they must be changing the chemistry of the ecosystem. What happens to all the waste for example?
One thing I have always wondered – how do wild salmon manage to return even a thousand miles to find the stretch of water they came from? Biological GPS?