New Video: Fisheries Minister in Vancouver for Emergency Meeting; Chief Chamberlin Shut Out
by Damien Gillis
Watch this new short video on the emergency meeting held by Fisheries
Minister Gail Shea in Vancouver this past Friday to discuss the Fraser
River Sockeye collapse - her first trip to Vancouver since the crisis
hit. The exclusive, invitation-only meeting left out some important
voices, including Chief Bob Chamberlin - Chair of the First Nations
Leadership Council-mandated Aquaculture Working Group - who was turned
away at the door.
http://saveourrivers.ca/video-library-mainmenu-29/423-shea-video-2
I spoke with both Chief Chamberlin and Watershed Watch's Dr. Craig Orr - apparently one of the few people in the meeting who raised the issue of salmon farms and their possible connection to the Fraser crisis. Dr. Orr describes here some of the latest science being done on the subject and reveals what went on inside the meeting. He also rebuts the erroneous contentions by industry and government as to why salmon farms can't be connected to the sockeye collapse.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out my recent video on DFO's delegation to the world's biggest fish farming trade show, Aquanor, in Trondheim, Norway: http://saveourrivers.ca/video-library-mainmenu-29/414-aquanor
Join these upcoming rallies for wild salmon - brought to you by the Wild Salmon Circle!
Sept 16 at noon in front of the DFO offices at Burrard and Pender - join us for a pre-rally leading up to a major rally on October 3
Big rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery on October 3 at 1 PM, uniting BC residents of all backgrounds - nature lovers, First Nations, sport and commercial fishermen, students, children, parents - in a strategic citizen movement to end open-net salmon farming in BC. Guest speakers, info and actions you can take to join the Wild Salmon Circle and help save BC's wild salmon!
