Activist walks the talk in anti-fish-farm campagin

Jack Knox
May 7, 2010
Times Colonist

Alexandra Morton has been a voice in the wilderness, literally and figuratively, for more than 20 years.

Way up in the Broughton Archipelago, off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, the biologist has been sounding the alarm about fish farming since 1989.

Wild salmon stocks are being wiped out by sea lice from fish farms that sit smack in the middle of their migration routes, she warns. The fragile, inter-connected ecology of the coast is in peril. Morton isn't the only one sending this message, but it's her name that has become synonymous with the cause -- and the frustration of environmentalists who feel ignored by those in power.

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