Please
find enclosed a press update (download in full online here) including:
“Stop salmon
farms” (Legacy, November)
“Grocery
chain pulls whole salmon following Facebook posts” (CBC News, 19
October)
“Fear
and silence” (Alexandra Morton, 19 October)
“Salmon
sea lice scare!” (Halifax News, 19th October)
“Sobeys
yanks whole salmon from shelves” (The Chronicle Herald, 19 October)
“Sea
lice do not pose human health risk” (Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers
Association, 19 October)
“Fish
farming faces a choice” (South Coast Today, 19 October)
“Sea
lice in salmon poses no health risk: aquaculture expert” (The Guardian,
19 October)
“Death
Toll Rises to Three – 950 People Infected from Farmed Salmon!” (Green
Around the Gills, 19 October)
“Sobeys
pulls whole salmon from stores: Facebook post leads to fish being pulled”
(CBC News, 19 October)
“Best
salmon sites banned” (Marlborough Express, 19 October)
“Eight
weeks of hearings end” (Marlborough Express, 19 October)
“Sobeys
pulls farmed salmon due to sea lice infestation” (South Coast Today, 18
October)
“Anti-fish farm
diva gets 'controversy' prize” (Campbell River Mirror, 18 October)
“Fish
farming industry convenes in Turkey” (World Fishing & Aquaculture, 17
October)
“Tla-o-qui-aht
FN threatens Legal or Direct Action Against New Fish Farm in Clayoquot Sound”
(Watershed Sentinel, 15 October)
Including from CBC
News (18 October):
“Sobeys has pulled all whole
Atlantic salmon from its stores in the Maritimes in response to concerns over
sea lice.The decision to pull the salmon appears to be the result of a campaign
launched by anti fish farming activist Alexandra Morton. Last week she started
buying whole salmon at local grocery stores across the Maritimes and posting
images of what she says are salmon infected with sea lice. When an image was
posted to the Sobeys Facebook page on Wednesday the company responded by
removing all whole salmon from all 84 of its Maritime stores.”
Watch video of sea lice infested farmed salmon
on sale in Sobeys – online via Facebook:
Watch video online
here
From The
Chronicle Herald (19 October):
“Social media strike
again. Thanks to a Facebook posting of a
dead fish, grocery retailer Sobeys is pulling whole Atlantic salmon from stores
in Atlantic Canada…..“If there’s a concern being raised with our customers, I
don’t care if it’s 28 or if it’s one (louse). If there’s one, it’s one too
many,” said Sobeys.
From Rick Howe in Halifax
News (19 October):
“Now some claim sea lice aren't an issue, but I've got to
think the ick factor alone is enough. But if indeed sea lice are the big
problem Morton says they are, clearly the province has to reconsider its approval
of these open pen salmon farms.”
From The
Guardian (19 October):
“Larry Hammell, a professor of aquaculture health
management at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, says the action
was not necessary. “There is
absolutely no human health concern associated with them (sea lice)…there is no
reason scientifically to remove these salmon from the shelves,’’ said Hammell. He says since food safety is not affected by
sea lice Morton’s campaign amounts to nothing more than fear mongering. “It’s a
scare tactic,’’ he said. “I have to admit it is a pretty effective one.’’
From CBC
News (19 October):
“The Atlantic Fish Farmers Association said in a news
release Friday that the lice do not pose a risk to human health.”
“Our
farmers are proud of the industry they have built over the past 30 years and
are committed to continuing to produce high quality and nutritious salmon,”
said Pamela Parker, Executive Director of the Atlantic
Fish Farmers Association
From Alexandra Morton’s blog ‘Fear
& Silence’ (19 October):
“Well boats are used in New Brunswick to
suck farm salmon into the hold, bath them in delousing drugs and pump them back
out into the pens. The lice have become too drug resistant to be treated in any
other way. Everyone knows the bath is then pumped out into the ocean. The fish
farmers say the drug is used up and weak when released, but Environment Canada
found an illegal drugs had been used that killed lobster.”
Watch
CBC News from 2010 on the raid by dozens of officers from Environment Canada “carrying
guns and wearing flak jackets” following the illegal use of toxic chemicals
which killed “hundreds of lobsters” – online here
Read the new issue of Legacy
(November) featuring Alexandra Morton and Anissa Reed:
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 via "Tell the World What's Happening"
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:
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!