Pacific Salmon Fall to Sea Lice
Peter McMullan
February 2009
Chasing Silver Fly Fishing Magazine
As a four-year-old he remembers cutting his angling teeth on chub minnows in Ottawa’s Green’s Creek. Today Eric Hobson travels extensively in pursuit of tarpon and taimen, steelhead and chinook salmon. More importantly, in terms of the very survival of some of Canada’s most important fisheries, he has the desire, the determination and the business savvy to challenge the commercial interests and the politicians that continue to turn a blind eye to a developing environmental disaster, the open net-cage salmon farming industry, and associated proliferation of billions of lethal sea lice, that blight the coast of British Columbia, Canada’s most westerly province.
Read the full article on SOS president Eric Hobson and his work to stop the impacts of open net-pen aquaculture on BC's wild salmon.
Posted March 14th, 2009
