Fw: Breaking Science - Take Action to Save Wild Salmon

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Breaking News - Please Take Action

Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform

 

SCIENCE REPORTS: Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Populations Toward Extinction

Experts raise serious concerns about the expansion of industrial fish

farming

 

A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the prestigious journal

Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations

caused by salmon farms are driving entire nearby populations of wild salmon

toward extinction. The results show that the affected pink salmon

populations have been rapidly declining for four years. The scientists

expect a 99% collapse in another four years, or two salmon generations, if

the infestations continue.

 

" The impact is so severe that the viability of the wild salmon populations

is threatened, " says lead author Martin Krkosek, a fisheries ecologist from

the University of Alberta. Krkosek and his co-authors calculate that sea

lice have killed more than 80% of the annual pink salmon returns to British

Columbia's Broughton Archipelago. " If nothing changes, we are going to lose

these fish. "

 

You can help prevent the loss of these wild salmon - insist the BC

government take immediate steps to stop the spread of sea lice from salmon

farms to wild salmon by emptying farms on key wild salmon migration routes

and investing in a closed containment fund in the 2008 budget.

 

Whether you are a BC resident or not, if you are concerned about the

extinction of wild salmon please ask the BC government to take immediate

action. Click here to send an online fax.:

 

 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/964/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21948

 

Thank you - your efforts can help prevent the tragic loss of wild salmon!

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