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What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?

 
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11/07/2011 08:19 AM
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What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
[link to www.theglobeandmail.com]
"In the early 1900s, the Fraser River had annual runs estimated at 100 million sockeye. Now it seldom sees more than 10 million. In 2009, it fell to one million. So the decline over time is dramatic, persistent and threatening."

Nice article, any ideas?
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11/07/2011 08:24 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Over-fishing.

???

Pretty simple really. Combined with some degradation of habitat. Brutally effective at decimating a species.
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01/04/2012 01:30 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
I read an article months ago from a woman scientist that said something about the Salmon had some kind of virus but the governments fearing a huge drop in sales in the salmon industry hushed her up.

Do a web search for Salmon +Virus and you might be able to find the article.
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01/04/2012 01:32 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Here you go!
Canada kept salmon risk from virus a secret

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01/04/2012 01:35 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Bears!
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01/04/2012 01:36 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Too much boat traffic I assume, as well as city garbage.. It's entrance from the ocean is smack in the middle of a mega-city (Vancouver/Richmond/Burnaby/Surrey/Etc)- This sort of thing:

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So if them salmon are comin in from the ocean and have to pass through the crap metropolises leave behind.. yea, no wonder there's much less of em
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
[link to maps.google.ca]

Not that far from where I am.. hmm.
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Zoom way in, there's even a ton and a half of logs being floated along the river, which probably doesn't help lol
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Zoom way in, there's even a ton and a half of logs being floated along the river, which probably doesn't help lol
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If you were a fish, would you want to swim in this to go spawn your eggs upriver?

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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
[link to www.canada.com]

Greed and corruption at the highest levels and business as usual in this province.
Our ex-premier Gordon Campbell (a.k.a Scambell) is Bilderberger scum who was recently "rewarded" with a post as British High Commissioner for his services in stealing the provinces resources. His equally corrupt brother is heavily-invested in these Frankenfish farms and now both levels of govt. are threatening the biologists to shut them up about the lethal virus and where it came from. Sadly typical of how things are run up here (and all over it looks like.)
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
You got to be fucking kidding, the BC coast used to be covered in factories processing salmon for global sales, the harbors were full of boats catching salmon, every man and his dog were out at weekends, catching salmon. And now they have a fucking inquiry into where they have all gone???
These government assholes couldn't put 2+2 together without getting 5. I'll give you a clue.........WE ATE THEM ALL, EVERY FUCKING ONE OF 'EM.
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
Certainly easier to blame the fish farms out in the ocean, no where near Fraser River heh. But those weren't around in the timeframe the OP's article is discussing, ie 1900 to 2009

Coincidentally, civilization sunk it's dirty hands even deeper at the end of said river, during that timeframe. Hmm.
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
[link to www.canada.com]

Greed and corruption at the highest levels and business as usual in this province.
Our ex-premier Gordon Campbell (a.k.a Scambell) is Bilderberger scum who was recently "rewarded" with a post as British High Commissioner for his services in stealing the provinces resources. His equally corrupt brother is heavily-invested in these Frankenfish farms and now both levels of govt. are threatening the biologists to shut them up about the lethal virus and where it came from. Sadly typical of how things are run up here (and all over it looks like.)
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1464492


I should add that the river referred to here runs right by my window so I take an interest in it and have been following this for years. Overfishing and increasing water temperatures are partly to blame but most of the devastation appears to be due to this virus, to which wild salmon have no natural immunity. Millions of salmon simply fail to return to the rivers to spawn which suggests that they are dying at sea. A year or two ago we had a large run but most years lately have been poor.
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
engineered bio terrorism and then claimed to be something rediculous like global warming.

its happening to the birds and fish...


created problem - birds and fish dying

engineered reaction - public: what do we do?????

Government Solution - insert global warming climate change bullshite here.
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01/04/2012 02:43 AM
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Re: What is causing British Columbia's salmon die-offs?
over fishing
pollution
fish farm viruses

i remember reading that david suzuki said when he was young there were so many fish in the georgia strait that you could almost walk on them and not touch the water!





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