Wild Salmon populations are being threatened on coastal BC by farmed salmon. Salmon farming harbours deadly diseases that can spread into the wild populations and decimate the populations.
While scientists are still trying to make the exact connections between heart disease in salmon and the transference into wild populations, BC is allowing the farms to continue and for new permits to be given out.
BC needs to enact the precautionary principle to prevent a viral attack on wild populations that are a main source of traditional foods for First Nations and a vital part of the BC ecosystem.
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To Minister Thomson,
As a person concerned with the wild and natural ecosystem of BC I am greatly disturbed by salmon farming. Farmed salmon harbour the PRV virus that is potentially linked to heart and skeletal disease. The transference of this virus to wild populations is still being studied and has the potential to decimate the wild population that is essential to First Nations, the larger ecosystem and BC's tourism industries.
BC should enact the precautionary principle and stop the further issuance of permits for salmon farming and slowly phase out the farmed salmon industry so as not to endanger the wild populations. It is better to act before there is a crisis as salmon is so critical to so many parts of BC.
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