Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing-related Issues & News => Topic started by: Rodney on September 28, 2009, 04:25:18 PM
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Check out this 3 min video about the Wild Salmon Circle and upcoming Vancouver Rally on October 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjsXnrADzgw
These interviews and speeches were recorded at the recent pre-rally outside DFO's Vancouver office on Sept 16.
Join the Oct 3 Rally for Wild Salmon - Presented by the Wild Salmon Circle
The Wild Salmon Circle is a citizen action group recently formed to build a large-scale public movement to save wild salmon from total collapse on our coast. The rally will feature music, information, and speakers including Alexandra Morton, Chief Bob Chamberlin, and representatives of the wilderness tourism, commercial, and sports fisheries.
Saturday, Oct. 3 @ 1pm - Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia St. side between Howe and Hornby)
Bring your family, art, music, salmon stories, pots n' pans. We'll provide speakers with real solutions & entertainment for all ages!
Wild Salmon are in crisis. We need to get sea lice and disease breeding salmon farms out of ancient migratory routes and off our coast permanently.
Join the Wild Salmon Circle - citizens concerned with the state of wild salmon - www.wildsalmoncircle.com
Don't Buy Farmed Salmon - tell your shops & restaurants to stop carrying it or you will not purchase their goods.
Sign the petition - 18,000 people already signed it at: www.adopt-a-fry.org
Write Prime Minister Harper - 80 Wellington St., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A2; pm@pm.gc.ca ; fax: 613-941-6900.
Also, write Fisheries Minister Shea - Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Parliament Buildings, Wellington St., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6; Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Grow the Circle. Turn the Tide. (http://www.wildsalmoncircle.com)
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I hope to be able to go, thanks for posting.
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THANK YOU
Good on ya Rodney !!
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Hello
I am writing to remind you that this Saturday, October 3, there is a rally being held in Vancouver on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery at 1pm on Georgia Street between Howe St. and Hornby St. It has been organized by a few citizens who realize that unless we take a stand, we will be losing our wild salmon. I have heard from many people who plan to be there from a wide area of the Province and Washington State.
There has been a very long and difficult history between people and this fish that feeds us and our environment. Many people know they have not done what they can to make sure future generations have this generous fish but it is time to move past this and take a stand.
If you cannot be there you can help by contacting your MP telling them to ask Prime Minister Harper everyday in question period what he has done to bring our sockeye salmon back from collapse. Why has the Minister of Fisheries, Gail Shea and her top BC official Paul Sprout said that fish farms will not be part of this investigation? Ask your MP everyday for a Judicial Inquiry into the disease history of every salmon farm in the spring of 2007 when our sockeye were last seen.
Contact your MP until they tell you they have done this. Unless we get people under oath, we will lose our salmon just like the east coast lost their cod.
It is immoral of the governments we elected and pay to degrade the eastern Pacific with their inattention to this. We need this fish to power our Province and this fish needs us.
Alexandra Morton
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These are the question , we need answers to before it's to... late..
Thank's Eagleye.
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^your welcome^ Bump... The rally is tomorrow!
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I am going, that is if I donot get snowed in here in Merritt today.
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Photos from the rally can be seen at:
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/gallery/2009salmonrally
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Some video of today's rally I filmed are at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqwEBjhZOjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCo1eJKWdvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27YmBd7MVU4
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Some more pictures of the Rally:
Alexandra Morton elated to see the turnout
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/Alexandra.jpg)
Native shares a traditional story and song about wild salmon
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/StoryTeller.jpg)
Generations- Elders and Young show support
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/Nativepresence.jpg)
Chief says a strong and moving speech
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/Chief.jpg)
Tree Druids
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/TreeDruids.jpg)
Scientist speaks out against fish farms and DFO corruption, calling for a judicial inquiry into their practices
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/scientistspeaks-1.jpg)
Lady passionately speaks out against the farms
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/womanspeaks-1.jpg)
More petition signatures
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/_Eagleye_/Signingthepetition.jpg)
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A better quality video than mine is at:
Hello All
The wild salmon rally organized by the Wild Salmon Circle was a tremendous success. Here is a clip of video. Please consider contacting your Member of Parliament until they answer you that they have called for a Judicial Inquiry. In the name of our children and everything we love about the eastern Pacific we must get the Canadian Government under oath. If you are from out of Province please write directly to the Prime Minister of Canada. Only we the people can turn this around. Time is of the essence.
Alexandra Morton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKWq2LyV3o
Addresses for MPs:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsAddressList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
Address for Prime Minister:
pm@pm.gc.ca