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Fish Farming Campaign
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Healthy wild salmon runs and a pristine marine environment are essential for a healthy temperate rainforest ecosystem. Bear, wolves, eagles, and orcas all depend on wild salmon for their survival. Unfortunately, wild salmon are under attack by the industrial salmon farming industry and their associated diseases, parasites, pollution, chemicals and escaped exotic species. |
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Fish Farming Campaign News & Archives
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION |
Noverber 5, 2003 -- (Victoria, Vancouver, Campbell River, BC; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, Los Angeles, CA; Austin, TX; Minneapolis MN) FAN launches Joey's Only Seafood Restaurant spoof website and join forces with Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) to organize an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION agaist fish farms.
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BANNER HANG AT JOEY'S ONLY HQ |
September 10, 2003 -- (Calgary, AB) Two activists from Forest Action Network (FAN) hung a banner reading "JOEY'S ONLY FARM SALMON DRUGGED AND TOXIC" at Joey's Only Seafood franchise office headquarters in Calgary, protesting their continued sales of farmed salmon.
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BOAT TOUR |
July, 2003 -- (Great Bear Rainforest, BC) FAN activists toured the inlets of the Great Bear Rainforest on FAN's campaign vessel, the MV Starlet, as part of our anti-salmon farming campaign. FAN members met with community members in six isolated villages throughout the northern coast of British Columbia.
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SUPERSTORE PROTEST |
March 5, 2003 -- (Vancouver, BC) Today, members of the Forest Action Network (FAN) and Nuxalk First Nation staged a “dead salmon tour” of destructive farmed salmon in a Superstore grocery store at Grandview and Rupert, in Vancouver. Superstore is a retailer of farmed salmon that is believed to be supplied in whole or in part by Omega, recent builders of a fish farm hatchery in Ocean Falls.
Farmed salmon product in the seafood section of Superstore were labeled with stickers saying “Farmed and Dangerous” by protestors. The FAN and Nuxalk members then demanded a meeting with management of the store.
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PROTEST AT DFO OFFICE IN VANCOUVER |
January 31, 2003 -- The Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee hosted a peaceful demonstration outside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans office in Vancouver, demanding the removal of salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago to ensure the survival of the collapsed Pink Salmon. Commerical fishermen, several First Nations, and members of FAN supported the protest.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST FISH FARM EXPANSION IN BC |
<>January 15, 2003 --Worldwide protests were held against salmon farm expansion on British Columbia’s Central Coast. The focal point for the protest was an Atlantic salmon hatchery facility currently being built at Ocean Falls by a Norwegian multinational (Pan Fish/Omega Salmon). FAN organized or participated in 6 protests in 4 countries, together with the Nuxalk and Heiltsuk Nation. Commercial fishermen, Raincoast Conservation Society, and more than a dozen other organisations from Canada, the US and Europe also participated. Pictures and details:
Ocean Falls | Campbell River | Vancouver | Seattle | Hong Kong | Hamburg
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FISH FARM HATCHERY DECONSTRUCTED |
December 17, 2002 -- 60 people in a fleet of 14 boats arrived at Ocean Falls to protest the construction of a fish farm hatchery by Omega (owned by financially troubled PANFISH). The protestors were predominantly Heltsiuk and Nuxalk First Nations, but the Forest Action Network (FAN), Raincoast Conservation Society, commercial fishermen and other local citizens also attended. Once on site, members of FAN successfully deconstructed part of the concrete foundation of the hatchery.
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FISH FARM TRUCK BLOCKADED |
December 11, 2002 -- At 7:00 AM, 40 people including chiefs, elders and citizens of the Nuxalk Nation and members of the Forest Action Network blockaded a shipment of farmed salmon headed for Richmond.
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FISH FARM HATCHERY PROTESTED |
December 3, 2002 -- Forest Action Network and the Nuxalk Nation protest a new Atlantic salmon hatchery being built at Ocean Falls, the first fish farm facility approved since the lifting of the moratorium. It is owned by Omega Salmon, a subsidiary of Pan Fish of Norway. This hatchery is designed to supply dozens of new fish farms in the Great Bear Rainforest, all of which will directly threaten the health of wild salmon, the lifeblood of the forest and the people of the region.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING PROTESTED |
September 12, 2002 -- FAN protested the BC Salmon Farmers Association Annual General Meeting. Premier Gordon Campbell has "declared war on the environment" by lifting the moratorium on new fish farms.
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EVICTION NOTICE |
August 31, 2002 -- FAN gives eviction notice to Omega Salmon.
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200 POUNDS OF SALMON DUMPED |
July 16, 2002 -- FAN dumped 200 pounds of dead Atlantic salmon in front of the British Columbia legislature. Heavy security prevented another 400 pounds from being dumped. Police arrested two members of the Forest Action Network (FAN).
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2004 Forest Action Network |
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