Save Wild Salmon Rally

Join the growing movement to save BC's wild salmon at a rally on Saturday, October 3rd at 1 PM at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia Street side between Howe and Hornby).

The Wild Salmon Circle is a citizen action group recently formed to build a large-scale public movement to save wild salmon from total collapse on our coast by removing salmon farms from ancient migratory routes and the BC coast.

The rally will feature music, information, and speakers including Alexandra Morton, Chief Bob Chamberlin, and representatives of the wilderness tourism, commercial, and sports fisheries. There will also be a kid's zone with games to play and a dance stage featuring Nils from Beats Without Borders.

Wild salmon are in crisis. Salmon farming affects wild salmon adversely because the crowded conditions of farmed salmon cages breed parasites. Unfortunately wild salmon often need to swim past these fish farms to get to open sea, and in doing so they pick up heavy infestations of sea lice. Because wild salmon are not fed chemicals and antibiotics to kill the parasites, as less healthy to the consumer farmed salmon are, these infections can kill the wild salmon.

Farmed salmon escaping into the wild is another problem. While you might root for the "escapee", farmed salmon are genetically different from the truly wild fish, and their effect on the wild stock is detrimental.

For more information, or to join The Wild Salmon Circle - citizens concerned with the state of wild salmon, visit their website.