Franke James

#FirstNations, B.C. groups launch coalition to save Pacific salmon from extinction: "The coalition says #Pacificsalmon populations have declined by more than 90% since the 1970s and warns that if the stock collapses, other species — like southern resident killer whales, whose diet is primarily salmon — are also at risk of #extinction."

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/02/06/first-nations-bc-groups-launch-coalition-to-save-pacific-salmon-from-extinction.html

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First Nations, B.C. groups launch coalition to save Pacific salmon from extinction

A leader with the First Nations Fisheries Council of B.C. says collaboration, not politics, will be the only thing that saves dwindling Pacific salmon populations.

thestar.com
Feb 7, 2023 at 6:42pmWeb
Show threadPhil Stevens Feb 7, 2023
@frankejames Alexandra Morton has been proven right at every turn. This is ecocide.
Show threadFranke JamesFeb 7, 2023
@phil_stevens 👍 "Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance." https://www.alexandramorton.ca/
Alexandra Morton

Alexandra is a field biologist who became an activist who has done groundbreaking research on the damaging impact of ocean-based salmon farming on the coast of British Columbia.