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don't askTopic: Green
THIS MAN
..is ruining our great Province environmentally. His checking of the time on his wrist watch (too late for the planet Mr.Campbell) represents the reason I never voted him (he is the "Peter Principle" in action: every person can rise to a level of their own incompetence)...never trust a man in a suit wearing a sports watch.
CP: Too many grizzlies killed in B.C. trophy hunt-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - -
The Salmon Bears, a new book with text by Nicholas Read and photographs by Ian McAllister, is for children eight and older but has something to offer all ages. It's organized by seasons. Here is an excerpt from "Fall."
Without the salmon, which feed not only bears but also wolves, otters, eagles and more than two hundred other species of rainforest animals, the Great Bear Rainforest would be a very different place. But vital as the salmon are, their annual return is no sure thing. Sometimes disaster strikes and they don't come back.
This happened recently in a place....
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Vancouver Sun: When bears go fishing in the rainforest
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Even Norway's richest man, John Fredriksen, an avid fisherman and majority owner of the world's largest salmon-farming corporation, Marine Harvest, was alarmed: “I am worried for the wild salmon’s future. Fish farming should not be allowed in fjords with salmon rivers,” said Fredricksen in 2007 to Norway's Altaposten.
Staniford, who was in Norway last May, reported sympathy among Norwegians, whose own wild salmon are plagued by infestations of sea lice, and who support an end to open-water net salmon farming.
“Norwegians are now rising up and standing up for wild salmon,” said Staniford. “Over the last year there has been a sea change in public perception of the salmon farming industry in Norway." Staniford sees Norwegian fishermen, river owners, politicians, environmentalists and citizens as increasingly critical of the salmon-farming industry plagued with sea lice and escapes of farmed salmon.
The Vancouver Olympics brought another opportunity to pressure the Norwegian government: Norway's King Harald V was in attendance at the Games. On a sunny Saturday, February 20, the eighth day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) and Wild Salmon Circle held a rally in Vancouver’s Vanier Park. Although Harold V was not among them, about 200 people turned out to hear featured speakers Morton, Staniford, ex-DFO biologist Otto Langer, and Kwicksutaineuk Ah-kwa-mish First Nation Chief Bob Chamberlin.
