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Coalition may sue gov't over fish farms

Victoria Times Colonist - Wednesday, September 25, 2002 http://www.canada.com/victoria/news/story.asp?id=134CD545-C48E-43E0-A747-78F 3FB50F043


VANCOUVER -- A coalition of environmental groups is threatening to take legal action against the federal and B.C. governments to try to put a halt to open-sea fish farms.

The groups, including the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, say the farms are threatening the survival of wild salmon stocks by spreading diseases like sea lice.

A report by the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform claims that most of the spawning runs of pink salmon off northern Vancouver Island were wiped out by the lice this year.

Biologist Alexandra Morton says fish farms in the same area are breeding grounds for the lice.

But a spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department has doubts about the claims.

Don Noakes says the department's own research has found the pink salmon run had fairly low levels of sea lice this year.
B.C. salmon runs near collapse, biologist says 'Much worse than I predicted. What we are looking at now is a 99% decline'


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Melissa Nelson
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
703 - 207 West Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7
Ph: 604-699-0065
Email: mcnelson@telus.net
Website: www.ancientrainforest.org


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