I fully endorse your action to try to save the Pacific salmonoids and at
the same time the Pacific riverine ecosystems. Unfortunately it is very
late. The introduction of the Atlantic salmon was a senseless folly.
Dr. Patrick de Rham
ACN Director
Initial message below
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> De : Howard Breenby way of Howard Breen <hbreen at island.net>
<hbreen at Island.net>
> A : acn-l at acn.ca
> Objet : [acn-l] IMPORTANT RESOLUTION: SALMON NETCAGES AND ATLANTIC SALMON
ESCAPES
> Date : jeudi, 8. octobre 1998 04:59
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> I would appreciate if you would give your consideration to
> endorse the following resolution to help guide Canadian fishery/
> aquaculture policy.
>
> Please send your personal and/or organizational endorsement to me -->
> HBreen at Island.net (credentials/affiliations appreciated).
>
> (Organizations will be cited * "Identification purposes only" if
specified;
> also please indicate if you are from outside Canada))
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Howard
>
> Howard Breen, Georgia Strait Alliance (250) 247-7467
> British Columbia, Canada
>
>
>
>
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> RESOLUTION ON SALMON NETCAGES AND ATLANTIC SALMON ESCAPES
> =========================================================
>
> Oct 1, 1998
>
>
> Since escaped exotic Atlantic salmon have now reproduced multiple
> generations of offspring in British Columbia's wild natural river system.
>
> And since wild natural Pacific salmon populations are in crisis and face
> habitat loss and disease from escaped Atlantics and their offspring, and
> since industry and government have misled the public about the risks of
> introducing exotic species such as Atlantic salmon we demand the
following:
>
> 1. Open salmon netcages must be banned in all Canadian waters and
replaced
> with safe, closed loop containment systems no later than December 31,
1999.
>
> 2. Canada must call upon the United States to ban open salmon netcages
since
> Atlantics are escaping from cages in the U.S.A. into Canadian waters.
>
> 3. Canada must immediately prohibit the importation of Atlantic salmon
eggs
> into Canada and all existing egg and fry stocks must be destroyed.
>
> 4. The industry must be forced by Canada to pay for the removal of all
> escaped Atlantic salmon and Atlantic salmon offspring from B. C. waters.
>
>
> SIGNING ORGANIZATIONS: (below)
>
> David Suzuki Foundation
> Georgia Strait Alliance
> Sierra Legal Defence Fund
>
>
>
>
>
>
> (APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATIONS)
>
> ~~WILD OCEANS FOREVER~~WILD OCEANS FOREVER~~WILD OCEANS FOREVER~~
>
> Howard
>
>
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