Thoughts on BC Politics and More

I have a few Google alerts set up. One of them is associated with my name. It turns up stories about me and also every time St. Louis Cardinals team athletic trainer “ Adam Olsen ” makes the news, I get the update. Additionally, any news that Google picks up about “ salmon ” and “ fish farms ” is also dropped into my email inbox. Image CBC News: " Pink Liquid Flows in Fortune Bay "   Recently, it’s been difficult to escape the stories about the massive die-off in the industrial salmon feedlots in Newfoundland & Labrador. While MP’s for the Liberal Party of Canada, on the east coast, have been in the news defending their fish farming industry, boats have been pumping pink fluid from the carcasses of millions of dead salmon back into the ocean. Industry representatives are quick to brush it aside, it's all organic matter so it mush be fine. However, at the very least it must be noted that any discharge of the volume of fat and organic matter in this case ca...

I am deeply saddened to  learn of the devastatingly low returns of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River this summer. Federal fisheries officials predicted approximately 4.8 million sockeyes would show up but just 628,000 salmon have come home to the once iconic salmon river. This is in stark contrast to the stories from people who have lived on our coast for decades. They described the rivers, creeks and streams on the south coast as teeming with fish. So thick, that the salmon could barely even swim. So thick, you could walk across their backs. Federal officials point to climate change as the main culprit. Climate change is dramatically changing our oceans. Warming waters and marine heat waves are having a disastrous effect on the entire food web that support salmon on their epic migration from British Columbia out to the Pacific Ocean and back. Off the hook While federal and global issues are challenging salmon, British Columbia cannot es...