Fw: Marine Mammal Deaths, Take Action

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Untitled DocumentShauna (Farmed and Dangerous)

 

Action Alert

Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform

 

New information regarding mass marine mammal deaths at open net-cage salmon

farms in British Columbia is causing public outrage and concern.

 

Voluntary reports and footage shed light on the magnitude of marine mammal

deaths caused by entanglements in salmon farm predator nets. The deaths

outlined below are from just a small fraction of the over 85 active salmon

farms in British Columbia.

 

Death Toll

April, 12 2007: 51 California sea lions were found dead at one of Creative

Salmon's open net-cage cage fish pens in Clayoquot Sound.

 

April 2007: Within a two week period a Harbour porpoise and a Steller sea

lion (both listed as species of special concern under Canada's Species at

Risk Act) and a Pacific white-sided dolphin were drowned in the predator

nets at Mainstream's Wehlis Bay farm in the Broughton Archipelago.

 

2006 and 2007: A total of 110 sea lions have drowned in Creative Salmon's

nets in Clayoquot Sound so far this year. And company management revealed 46

sea lion died in their nets in 2006.

 

1989-2000: According to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans BC salmon

farmers reported killing 6,243 seals and California and Steller sea lions.

 

Salmon farm companies are only required to report mammals they shoot, not

those that become entangled and drown in their predator nets.

 

You can help prevent these unnecessary deaths

 

Send a FAX and tell BC Premier Gordon Campbell and the Minister of Fisheries

and Oceans, Loyola Hearn that you want an industry wide transition to closed

containment technology to be mandated. We need to protect marine mammals and

the health of our oceans.

Send a fax:

 

 

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/farmed/campaign.jsp?ca

mpaign_KEY=11169