Please
find enclosed a press update (in full online here) including:
“Here Comes
Cohen: Halloween Horror for Harper?” (Superheroes 4 Salmon, 30 October)
“Salmon inquiry
final report will be made public Wednesday in Ottawa” (The Canadian
Press/Vancouver Sun/Montreal Gazette, 29 October)
“Fisheries stakeholders searching for answers on eve of
Cohen report’s release” (The Globe & Mail, 29 October)
“Media Alert – Commissioner Bruce Cohen to
address media regarding his final report on Fraser River sockeye salmon” (Cohen Commission, 29
October)
“Report
into faltering salmon stocks due out this week”
(News 1130, 28 October)
“Report
on decline of Fraser River sockeye due tomorrow” (Global News, 28 October)
“Otto
Langer Unleashes on Salmon Inquiry, DFO, Harper on Eve of Report” (The Common Sense Canadian, 28
October)
“Salmon Inquiry: Probe shows need for reform, group
says” (The Globe & Mail/The Canadian Press, 28
October)
“Uncalled-for attack/Respected scientist” (The Chronicle Herald, 28 October)
“Fish farm plant
with sick workers breached US food safety rules” (Rob Edwards, 28 October)
“Marine Harvest’s Q3 returns tumble” (Intrafish, 26 October)
“RIVM: Salmonella
outbreak on the return – 76 new cases of infection” (De Telegraaf,
25 October)
Including
from The Canadian
Press
(28 October) on the Cohen Commission’s final report published to be published
tomorrow (31 October):
“Mary Ellen Walling, executive director of the B.C.
Salmon Farmers Association, said it’s clear pressure must be taken off the wild
salmon stocks and farmed salmon can help achieve that goal. “We’re seeing growing demand for salmon in
the Canadian marketplace, the U.S. marketplace, the European marketplace, the
Asian market,” she said. “It’s very important that we be able to provide that
seafood to the world population in a responsible and sustainable way. Walling
said about three weeks of testimony focused on aquaculture.”
From News 1130 (28
October):
“Marine
biologist Alexandra Morton
says Justice Bruce Cohen has done a phenomenal job heading up the commission of
inquiry. "I'm hoping Justice Cohen will make a very strong statement about
aquaculture and about habitat protection."
But she has some concerns, too.
"Why has this report been delayed and delayed, for one. That's
concerning for me. Will we actually get a chance to see the report? Will we
actually Stephen Harper actually do anything? Probably not." Morton says Cohen has set an impressive
precedent, in obtaining the disease records of salmon farms in BC and making
them public. "It was
groundbreaking, and what I think he has to say is that we have to reduce the
exposure of wild salmon to the viruses in these feedlots."
From
The Globe &
Mail
(29 October):
“Colleen Dane, a representative of the B.C. Salmon
Farmers Association, said she is anticipating a detailed, complex report – and
is hoping it absolves fish farming of blame in the collapse of wild
stocks. “I don’t want to guess at what
Justice Cohen will recommend,” she stated in an e-mail, “but we certainly heard
at the commission that wild salmon stocks are under pressure and that wild and
farm-raised fish can and do co-exist.”
Support
Alexandra Morton’s testing for salmon diseases – please donate online here now!
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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:
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