Protesters of salmon farms on B.C. coast want them to relocate on land

April 26, 2010
Turtle Island News

After 20 years of expressing concern to provincial and federal
governments about the industrial salmon farms on the B.C. coast,
protesters planned to spend the next few weeks raising awareness of
the issue.

The protest, called Get Out Migration for Wild Salmon, was set to
begin Thursday night in Sointula, a fishing village on Malcolm
Island off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, biologist
Alexandra Morton said in an interview earlier this week from
Broughton Archipelago at Echo Bay north of Vancouver Island.

She has been at the centre of the controversy to have Norwegian
salmon farms removed from the migration routes of the wild salmon.
She and her followers are asking that the farms be moved onto land
away from the routes to "allow wild salmon to be restored.''

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• Global News; April 23, 2010; "Fighting Fish Farms: Environmentalist "walks the walk" to draw attention to the risks BC fish farms create for wild salmon stocks"
• CTV / A Channel News; April 23, 2010; "Salmon Are Sacred"
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• The Canadian Press; April 22, 2010; "Protesters of salmon farms on B.C. coast want them to relocate on land"
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