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Aquagirls swim the sea lice gauntlet in the Wild Salmon Narrows

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Aquagirls swim the sea lice gauntlet in the Wild Salmon Narrows
by Salmon Superhero
The superheroes - dubbed the "Sisters for the Salmon" - successfully negotiated the hazardous waters around the Conville Bay salmon farm supported by the Wild Salmon Narrows 'Spring Cleaning Crew' and Salmon Are Sacred.
 
Aquagirls Michelle Nickerson and Katherine Trajan braved ice-cold and sea-lice infested waters when they swam the length of a salmon farm in the Wild Salmon Narrows yesterday (26th April).
 
Michelle Nickerson of the Fraser River Ripple Effect, who was joined by super-swimmer Katherine Trajan, said: “We are swimming around a salmon farm because the out-migration of the Fraser River salmon smolts is happening now. 
 
It is foolish having fish farms on migration routes.  We must remove salmon farms from wild salmon migration routes immediately”.



    

“This is a crime scene,” said Alexandra Morton.  “The message to Marine Harvest, Mainstream and Grieg is crystal clear - cut the crap and stop polluting BC’s pristine waters.  Please remove your filthy feedlots out of the path of migrating wild salmon.”

Jody Eriksson, who collected waste samples and filmed under salmon farms, said: “It’s a wasteland down under the farms.  We were shocked: piles of fish faeces, rotting feed, bacterial mats and bubbling gases; a bottom smothered by waste.  This out of sight damage must be exposed!”

Watch shocking video via "Shocking New Footage Reveals Devastation Beneath Salmon Farms" in The Canadian.

More details via The Courier-Islander's "Cut the Crap Campaign Brought to Campbell River'