by Erin DeWolfe | Nov 16, 2021 | Campaigns, Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Photo Credit: Douglas Ludwig Salmon farming corporations have submitted 12 applications — including 5 from Cermaq in Clayoquot Sound — to increase production and profits. The corporations are looking to do this through a combination of increasing the size or number of...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) – which is associated with lethal kidney and liver damage in Chinook salmon – is continually being transmitted between open-net salmon farms and wild juvenile Chinook salmon in British Columbia waters, according to a new genomics analysis....
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
“Following Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan’s December 17, 2020 decision to prohibit restocking of 19 fish farms in the Discovery Islands, this spring’s out-migration of juvenile salmon are the first to swim through a fish farm-free Okisollo Channel in over 25...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
A scientific review of the world’s oceans published in the scientific journal Nature concluded that the world’s oceans can be restored within a generation. Through rampant overfishing, pollution and coastal destruction, humanity has inflicted severe damage on the...
by dewolfe001 | Jun 14, 2021 | Climate Action Now, Defend Wild Salmon, First Nations, General News, Indigenous Solidarity, Newsletter
The FOCS Summer 2021 Newsletter is out with an in-depth look at the major issues in Clayoquot Sound and the work we have been doing over the last several months, including updates on our campaigns. 3rd Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Member Shot by RCMP in 1 Year!?!...
by German Ocampo | Dec 20, 2020 | Defend Wild Salmon, First Nations, General News, Indigenous Solidarity
A total of 101 B.C. First Nations, tourism operators, and commercial and sport fishing groups have united in a show of solidarity to demand the federal government take immediate action on the collapse of Fraser River salmon stocks by ordering the removal of open-net...
