I saw this film recently and I feel compelled to share it. The Canadian government and corporations are trying to silence and discredit these biologists.



I think the film raises more questions than it answers. Though it did answer some very good questions. I hope Oregon, Washington, and the federal government will heed this information as a warning to the potential consequences of doing similar farming practices here. I know there is Atlantic salmon farms in Washington and biologists are finding diseases among those Washington farmed fish. The diseases found in those farms are said to be native, but experts worry that the clustering of nonnative Atlantic salmon in farm-fish net pens could amplify the pathogen and make it more virulent or cause it to mutate into something far more deadly for wild fish.
The film was amateur to be sure and was rather unscientific at times. With all the silencing that goes around, I'm glad any film was made at all. Information like this shouldn't be kept secret. I'm left wondering why this one biologist is going to such great lengths that others are not. Surely there is a large concern on this subject. If more people were doing the work that Alexandra Morton is, and coming up with the same results she has, then her work would be undeniably more credible in the eyes of critics. It seems that discrediting somebody is the passive aggressive legal way of silencing somebody.
There is many reasons why wild salmon have been declining from over fishing, hatchery practices, habitats loss, plus many other reasons. This is just the tip of the iceberg of salmon issues, but it is the government coverup is most disturbing. I encourage everybody to spread the word about these issues and never buy "Atlantic salmon".

This post was edited by NatureNames on Jun 24 2013 09:45am