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Press conference starts at 12.30pm Pacific Standard Time (31 October) – details online here
Here's a Global News Update including (in full online here):
“Watch Live: Cohen report on
sockeye salmon” (CTV News, 31 October)
“Report
on sockeye salmon collapse to be released” (The Canadian Press/CTV News, 31
October)
“Cohen
Inquiry Tracker” (Watershed Watch, 31 October)
“B.C.
sockeye collapse report to be released today” (CBC News, 31 October)
“Halloween
Trick Not Treat – Scary Farmed Salmon!” (Green Around the Gills, 31
October)
“Government
agency to slam Galway Bay fish farm EIS” (Friends of the Irish Environment,
31 October)
“BIM
refutes suggestion it suppressed report” (Galway Independent, 31 October)
“Flying the Flag for Wild Salmon in Scotland
& Ireland” (Wild Salmon First/GAAIA, 31 October)
“Salmon
farms decision delayed” (Marlborough Express, 31 October)
“Tassal
escapes second strike” (Sky News, 31 October)
“Release
of B.C. salmon inquiry report generates debate” (CBC News, 30
October)
“Salmon
farming health responsibilities should not be neglected,' warns Sernapesca”
(FIS, 30 October)
“Staff,
farm sites safe following weekend tsunami warning” (BC Salmon
Farmers Association, 29 October)
“Tassal
picked to test new ASC standards” (Seafood Source, 26 October)
Including
from CBC
News (31 October):
“If we don't make a stand in British Columbia … 100 years from now, we
might have very few salmon runs,” said Otto Langer, a former Department of
Fisheries and Oceans biologist.
Industry spokesman Stewart Hawthorn, of the B.C. Salmon Farmers
Association, thinks the report will find farming is not the issue. "Just going back to what the evidence
said, it was quite clear that wild salmon and farmed salmon can co-exist,"
Hawthorn said.
Wild salmon advocate Alexandra Morton, an intervener as well as an
inquiry witness, said that view is "outrageous." “The collapse of the Fraser sockeye began
exactly when those farms went on their migration route,” Morton said.
Keep a track on the Cohen report via “Cohen
Inquiry Tracker”
Read
more background via “Here
Comes Cohen: Halloween Horror for Harper?”
Elena Edwards, a campaigner for Wild Salmon First, said
(31 October): "May the global voices for wild salmon unite to deliver the
message to Norway that Norwegian salmon farms are not welcome and must
go!"
"The flag and declaration will be travelling to Scotland and Ireland to
support efforts to stop Norwegian owned salmon farms from killing wild
salmon," continued Edwards. "The more names on the flag the
stronger the message which will be brought to Norway next year. Your
voice matters!"
Sign
the Declaration and view more details via http://www.wildsalmonfirst.org/
From the Director of Aquaculture in Chile in FIS
(30 October) ringing the warning bells on ISA:
"I'm not saying that it will happen, but if we were to have a
virus outbreak of infectious salmon anemia (ISA), our ability to respond
effectively and promptly would be ensured by working together and continuously
coordinating efforts among all the actors in salmon farming and where each one
supports their part."
More background via The New
York Times which reported (27 July 2011) that ISA was brought to Chile by
Norwegian companies:
Read more via “ISA:
Diary of Disease Disaster” and “Fish
Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse”
Support
Alexandra Morton’s testing for salmon diseases – please donate online here now!
Sign
a petition calling on supermarkets to stop selling disease-ridden farmed salmon
– sign online here!
Best
fishes,
Don
Read previous Global News Updates online here
Global News Archive:
Global News Updates include the 'Salmon
Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland,
Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia:
31 October – “Watch Live”/“Cohen Report Tracker”/“Flying the Flag”/“Report Released Today” - online here
30 October – “Here Comes
Cohen!”/“Probe Shows Need for Reform”/“Uncalled-for Attack”/“Respected
Scientist” – online here
28 October – “Deadline Looms”/“Mystery
Illness”/“Mass Sickness”/“Not Defamatory Enough” – online here
23 October – “Halt Fish Farm Growth”/“Disease Hits Cermaq”/“Like Cancer”/“Is Truth a Tactic?”- online here
19 October – “Sobeys Yanks Salmon”/”Sea Lice Scare!”/“Death Toll Rises”/“Direct Action Vs. New Fish Farm” – online here
18 October – “Teen
Fights Salmon Farms”/“Lawsuit Threat”/“Cermaq Appeal”/”Health Indicators
Worsen” – online here
15 October – “Sicko
Salmon”/“Farms & Disease”/“PR Disaster”/“Passionate Pleas” – online
here
3 October –
“Salmonella Outbreak”/Activist Wins”/“Boaties Protest”/“Lynch Mob” - online
here
28 September –
“Judgment Day”/“Salmon Sludge Fouls Hearing”/“Students Oppose Farms” - online
here
24
September – “Flotilla Protest”/“Shooting Seals Row”/“Farm Not
Welcome” – online
here
11 September –
“Dirty Secrets”/“FishyLeaks: Toxic Toilets”/“Disease Risk” - online
here
29 August – “Virus
Trackers”/“Compensation Culture”/“Say No to 9 New Salmon Farms” - online
here
8 August – “Legal
Strategy”/“Wave of Controversy”/“IHN Virus” – online
here
3 August – “Fatal Virus Detected in BC”/“Fish Farm
Quarantined” – online
here
31 July – “IHN Virus Spreads”/“Norway’s Olympic Mascot”/”Playing With
Fire” – online here
20 July – “Norwegian Fish Farm Virus Found in BC”/”ISA Confirmed”/“A
Fishy Tale” – online
here
17 July – “FishyLeaks”/“ISA in BC”/“Scotland’s Secrets” – online
here
13 July – “Aquaculture PR Wars”/“Beware Mother Nature”/“Trouble
Brewing” – online
here
11 July – "Salmon Wars Are Here"/"Smoking
Gun"/"Canada disease cleanup" – online
here
9 July –
"Killer Panda"/"Quarantined Salmon to be Destroyed"/"PR
War Waged" – online
here
6 July – "CFIA quarantines fish farm"/"Parasite found in
Norwegian-owned salmon" – online
here
4 July – "Parasite-ridden salmon sold in BC stores"/"95%
of BC salmon is BAP certified" – online
here