Wild Salmon Occupying The DFO – Dec 15-19
Occupy Vancouver participant Jay Peachy begins the Installation/Occupation at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Pacific Region Office (Burrard and Pender St). It started on December 15th 2011, to coincide with the final 3 days of testimony of the federal inquiry (Cohen Commission) looking into the collapse of the Fraser River Sockeye. The last three days of testimony at the commission explores the ISA virus affecting Pacific Wild Salmon stocks. ISA which is associated with Corporate Atlantic Farmed Salmon has destroyed Wild Salmon Populations in Europe.
From the official press release:
Salmon advocates across British Columbia are taking action to demand protection of wild salmon, coinciding with the re-start of Cohen Commission and hearings on the Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus.
“Around the world, our oceans are threatened because of irresponsible practices of industry and government, solely for the motivation of profit for a few foreign owned companies,” states Tria Donaldson, Pacific Coast Campaigner, Wilderness Committee.
“Now in BC, the discovery of the deadly ISA virus associated with industrial open-net fish farming is forcing us to examine our priorities as a nation. Are we going to choose corporate interests, or are we going to take immediate steps to protect pacific wild salmon and our oceans?”
Follow the action and learn more at Occupy Wild Salmon.
Here’s another vid sharing the effects of fish farming:
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J Peachy
Wild Pacific Salmon are an amazing and complex gift, it is something that is shared across political boundaries. But it also a food source that shares ecological and predatory boundaries. Salmon can feed 200 species of other animals, Eagles, Bears, Wolves, Whales. It is the natural protein source of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It is such a complex and amazing creation of nature; the gifts that Salmon provide us is actually too difficult to comprehend in the language that humans created.
Art and Creative Expression seemingly are the only medium that can communicate in the same manner as how the Salmon actually provides to us as an integrated Eco-System. It needs creative a multi-disciplinary and multi-sensory stimuli, that is based on the same subject matter.
Capitalism is built on the concept of comparative efficiency for the sustenance of humans of who they interact with on monetary terms and so they created “Corporate Salmon”. People outside of the corporate Salmon Model, can recognize the truth about Salmon and get angered at the conflict between Corporate Salmon and Natural Wild Salmon. However, people in both camps feel that the truth in their logic is correct.
Meanwhile a Salmon Virus mutates in the background, have we awoken before its too late?
17 Dec 2011 05:12 pm (@occupysalmon)
J Peachy
Sorry about the bad grammar, speak visually
17 Dec 2011 07:12 pm (@Twitter)
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