Resolution on salmon netcages and atlantic salmon escapes

September 24, 1998



Since escaped exotic Atlantic salmon have now reproduced multiple generations of offspring in British Columbia’s wild natural river system.

And since wild natural Pacific salmon populations are in crisis and face habitat loss and disease from escaped Atlantics and their offspring, and since industry and government have misled the public about the risks of introducing exotic species such as Atlantic salmon we demand the following:

1. Open salmon netcages must be banned in all Canadian waters and replaced with safe closed containment systems no later than December 31, 1999.
2. Canada must call upon the United States to ban open salmon netcages since Atlantics are escaping from cages in the U.S.A. into Canadian waters.
3. Canada must immediately prohibit the importation of Atlantic salmon eggs into Canada and all existing egg and fry stocks must be destroyed.
4. The industry must be forced by Canada to pay for the removal of all escaped Atlantic salmon and Atlantic salmon offspring from B. C. waters.

SIGNING ORGANIZATIONS

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