An iconic species of the west coast of Canada, salmon are part of the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest. However due to threats from over-fishing, salmon farms, global warming and habitat alteration through logging, mining, oil and gas exploration, agriculture and dams, over 100 stocks of salmon have already gone extinct in British Columbia and another 700 are at risk.
Protect our Wild Salmon
Canadians don’t need to look far to see the result of mismanagement of fisheries stock. The collapse of the cod fishery on the East Coast of Canada is one of the environmental tragedies of the 20th century. Decades of government inaction and political gamesmanship resulted in a devastating crash of the once plentiful cod. To avert a similar ecological disaster we must take immediate steps to protect the habitat of our pacific salmon, ban pathogen producing open-net cage salmon farms and stop the over-fishing of this magnificent species...more
Supplementary information about the risks salmon farms pose to wild salmon, the environment and human health...more
Since its start in 1980 the Wilderness Committee has worked to protect Canada’s biodiversity, including wild salmon. The Wilderness Committee first asked for salmon farming closures to protect wild salmon in 1998 during the provincial NDP government’s moratorium on new salmon farms that was set in 1995, but lifted in 2002 by the provincial Liberal government.
The Wilderness Committee will continue to urge for the protection of BC’s wild salmon stocks and the natural coastal ecosystem that depends upon wild salmon and is calling for:
