Idle No More - March for Wild Salmon
11am Friday March 1, 2013 Victory Square
Cambie & Hastings St, Vancouver, Coast Salish territory
11:00 am – Speakers, Indigenous Salmon Defenders
12:30 pm - arrive at Department of Fisheries, 401 Burrard Street at Pender with more speakers
featuring Carrielynn Victor, Janice Billy, Cease Wyss, Shawna Green, Eddie Gardner, Nitanis Desjarlais, Dawn Morrison, Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Kalilah Rampanen + more TBA
Child friendly – bring the family!
In concert with March for Wild Salmon on the same day in Oslo, Norway!
https://www.facebook.com/events/549437745066538/
We have reached a tipping point and cannot stand idly by while our most important food is destroyed by the fish farming industry.
Norwegian fish farms have colonized our waters and infected our wild salmon. Our salmon are forced to swim through the fish farm cesspools along their migratory routes. There have been findings of heart virus, salmon flu and brain tumors, all related to salmon farms, which have all been traced back to Norwegian sources. There is no safe passage for them!
STOP NORWEGIAN FISH FARMS FROM KILLING WILD SALMON!
Over 90% of B.C.’s nearly 150 salmon farm licenses are owned by three Norwegian multinationals: Marine Harvest, Cermaq (Mainstream in Canada) and Grieg.
For years British Columbians have tried to persuade this Norwegian industry to respect our Wild Fish, even offering to fund their transition to closed tanks, but they just keep expanding. 5000 people stood at the BC legislature telling government to get salmon feedlots out of the ocean, away from our Wild Salmon, but they did not hear us.
This is a time for people in Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Chile and wherever salmon farms are impacting wild salmon, to join forces and send a message loud and clear to DFO that wild salmon MUST be protected from the impacts of open-net salmon farms!!
Join the Voices for Wild Salmon to stand for the fish that brings life to our coast.
Learn more http://www.wildsalmonfirst.org/
and boycott farmed salmon:
http://www.salmonfeedlotboycott.com/
Please read, sign and share these petitions:
http://www.change.org/petitions/premier-christy-clark-do-not-renew-salmo...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_European_salmon_viruses_from_killi...
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