TR
It's only too long if it's boring. Excellent watch! I would like to see the other side, but it appears that the evidence is pretty convincing. It's not just a BC problem. It's an international problem. While I've been accused of relying too much on market forces before, I believe that this could be the quickest way to effect change. These species truly are the "linchpin" that holds that ecosystem together. Also, I would like to see regulation to ensure some type of closed loop aquifer, but that will involve laws in at least two countries plus international treaties.

"Is the Salmon wild or farmed?"
"I will no longer buy farmed Salmon, until the industry has gone to closed containment, and is no longer impacting ecosystems like the one in British Columbia. We can play a vital role in the Salmon industry and everything that depends on it!"
For more information: www.farmedsalmonexposed.org

Wow!
You are correct YooperJack, it is an international problem, actually global!

http://www.mangroveactionproject.org/news/current_headlines/canadians-ac...

I hope the link works!

TR,thanks for enlightening most of the population. I've always wanted to go to BC and fish for one of the finest tasting fish "caught"!

It seems that a delegation from Canada confronted the Norwegion Companies and this is in part their response;

“Norwegian companies such as Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafoods have admitted publicly at home that their farms are a major source of sea lice infecting and often killing the wild Atlantic salmon,” says Catherine Stewart of the Living Oceans Society. “Yet in Canada, these same companies deny the problem, say the science is inconclusive and do their utmost to avoid taking responsibility or working towards solutions to address the problem."

It seems to me that people who find this appalling and an atrocity should come along side the Canadians as paracletes and support their efforts in the Salmon industry ... The call and intensity for "H-E-L-P," doesn't get much louder!

After reading this article I feel impacted and empowered
to just ask, if the "Salmon are farmed or wild?"

I'm sad and shocked, to think that there just may be a couple of generations left ... I don't recognize this world any more, is this all due to greed, corruption or indifference?

Great synopsis of the issue! I've actually had a fishery biologist tell me that salmon farms are good because they'll reduce the demand for commercially caught salmon - absolutely crazy!, right? - especially when you understand the detrimental impacts these farms have on the ecosystem. With more open pen salmon farms, the likelihood is that we'll have fewer wild salmon in the future. Can only hope the province makes the corporations shift to closed pen farming - and soon! Incredibly, the U.S. is looking at subsidizing 'ocean aquaculture', even in the face of this kind of evidence that it would be a bad idea. Why does the U.S. want to do it? I've heard: balance of trade (the U.S. needs to export farmed salmon to balance imports of farmed salmon). Why not just support fisherman cooperatives, like the one the Alaska trollers operate out of Sitka?

If only everyone was a hunter or fisherman. Unfortunately, most people are weak and have to have their food shipped to them from faraway places that they have no knowledge of or care for.

The world would be a much better place if everyone would just man up and earn their meat. Hunting and fishing is the definition of "sustainability".

Ironically, the people that crap their pants about local, organic, sustainable, whatever, are the people that think hunting and fishing are terrible things. Idiots.

This issue has a special place in my heart here on the East Coast, where wild Atlantic salmon populations do still exist, although only on the fringes of their historic range these days.

I have been to a salmon farm on the shores of Maine, not far from the mouths of the Dennys, Machias, Shepscot and other rivers where Atlantic salmon lived. Now, those runs are nearly wiped out, if they even exist at all. Fish farms, with their ability to concentrate predators at high levels and the added stress of disease and parasites are not the only reason our Atlantic salmon are gone, but they no doubt contribute.

Click here http://www.asf.ca/issues.php?id=3 to see more issues with farm-raised salmon and our treasured silver leapers here in the east.

Seems like this sort of problem comes up everytime we domesticate a species for human consumption, SLICE for Salmon, CWD for deer and elk, Mad Cow for cattle. I don't like it but I have a feeling that the alternate approach that the movie provided (of having fully enclosed runs) would make the farm raised fish just as expensive as wild caught fish. Not sure what the solution is but in a world with an ever increasing population we are going to have to make some tough choices about how to provide food for a hungry planet.

Sorry, no solutions at this point.

It only seems natural in our society to push for something that is not only easier but also cheaper. The idea of farm raised salmon probably does not matter to over 70 percent of the nation. The one thing that does matter is the price of the salmon. We anlgers and avid outdoors man have to be the spokes people for the wild salmon, unless we want to see this fish we love drift into the rough waters of extenction.