Salmon Swimming Free – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 7/9
Salmon Swimming Free – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 7/9
Visiting again with friend Kevin, Uncle Weed discusses the negative impact salmon fish farms impart on the local aquaculture. Specifically, Atlantic salmon living in pens attract hazardous sea lice, are unable to spawn, are fed with small fish imported from South America, show more...
Downcast podload: Salmon Swimming Free – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 7/9 – 16:00
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Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.
Music
Theme: Bex – “Lonesome (Lost) Traveler”
Segue: Wm. Lenker – excerpts from “Heaven Holds a Place”
Interludes: Grateful Dead – “Throwing Stones”
Insert: Bob and Doug McKenzie (recorded from CBC TV) thanks to @JMV
Background
This is Part 7 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices.
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More
Clayoquot Reading via Amazon
A Lousey Time in Clayoquot Sound By Mike Price, Biologist, Raincoast Wild Salmon Project
CLAYOQUOT SOUND: WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON? – First Nations Environmental Network
Escaping farmed salmon pose risks – David Suzuki Foundation
Endangered Salmon- Sea Lice is a Problem – Clayoquot Wilderness resort
Farmed Salmon – Facts and Footnotes
Friends of Clayoqout Sound – Fish Farming
The Five Fundamental Flaws of Sea Cage Fish Farming
The sea cage farming of carnivorous finfish such as salmon, tuna, cod and sablefish is fundamentally flawed in five ways:
the wastes produced by farming the fish that escape the diseases and parasites that occur in farms the chemicals used to treat diseased fish the problems of stock depletion and contamination of feed.Join/Contribute FOCS
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