Video: Scientific Perspectives
Daily Planet (Discovery Channel) - 3 science approaches to what may be causing the decline of the Fraser River sockeye and the Cohen Commission into the decline.
- October 19, 2011 - the technology behind counting and tracking salmon
- October 2, 2011 - perspective on sea lice and the Fraser River sockeye
- October 2, 2011 - studying stress in salmon
“Clayoquot Sound: Wild Salmon in Trouble” is a video by Canadian film maker Damien Gillis. This work highlights the work of the Wild Fish Conservancy in researching the impacts of open net-cage salmon farms on the chum and threatened Chinook salmon populations of Clayoquot Sound. Research in part financed by the SOS Marine Conservation Foundation.
“The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry - Farmed Salmon Exposed” is a video by Canadian film maker Damien Gillis. This work reveals the pervasive nature of the issues plaguing salmon aquaculture and features testimonials by witnesses discussing the environmental and socio-economic damage caused by poorly managed salmon farms. The film was screened internationally during The Pure Salmon Campaign's Global Week of Action in November, 2009.
Watershed Watch’s film "Aquacultural Revolution: The scientific case for changing salmon farming" is a documentary style film by Damien Gillis interviewing many prominent scientists and First Nation representatives who speak their minds about the salmon farming industry and the numerous problems associated with it. For the full version click here.
Twyla Roscovich's June 2008 video "Fraser Sockeye Lice Infection" showing juvenile sockeye salmon being sampled for sea lice in the Discovery Islands off Campbell River, B.C.
