EarthAction

Save Canada's Wild West Coast Salmon from Fish Farm Sea Lice

Juvenile pink salmon with sea lice                                   Photo by Alexandra Morton

Action: Please sign the petition below which has grown from 500 to over 10,000 signatures in the last few weeks.

Raising salmon in ocean pens or cages on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada is bad news for Canada's wild salmon, and for the Orca whales, eagles, bears and other animals that depend on the salmon for food. The practice, called 'fish farming', crowds the caged fish in unnatural and unhealthy conditions which breeds diseases and deadly sea lice that overwhelm the healthy natural salmon in adjacent waters. Canada has the only coast with abundant wild salmon to allow this industry.

Alexandra Morton of the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society is leading an effort to get the Canadian  government and the Province of British Columbia to apply the Federal Fisheries Act to 'fish farms'.

To sign the petition to apply the Fisheries Act to fish farms the way it is applied to fishermen, please click on the link below. The petition is a simple form with the minimum requirements to be effective in the British Columbia's Premier's office and with the Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans. If you are inclined, please forward this to others who care about the wild salmon.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cEkxX3p3MGFBbWNVVGNVU3lxQnBwQmc6MA

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Statement on Tibet, China and the Dalai Lama

In a week where the Dalai Lama stuck his neck out, and the Chinese government retaliated with public scorn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has stepped forward and asked us to raise our voices.

Sign the letter today and stand behind these two moral authorities for the future of the Tibetan religion and culture.

To sign the letter, and to learn more, please visit: http://www.thecommunity.com/