Judicial Inquiry into the Fraser sockeye crash.

[Beeswax]

You cannot say you care about wild salmon if you don’t make this effort. This e-mail comes from Alexandra Morton, remember the signatures must be original, handwritten. Let's make them count.
Hello All

Good News Finally! Peter Julian, Member of Parliament – New Westminster has just launched a petition for a Judicial Inquiry into the Fraser sockeye crash.

CONSIDER THIS: If there had been a Judicial Inquiry into the declining North Atlantic cod, we would have rebuilt that fish stock by now because we would have discovered that the critical research by Dr. Ransom Myers of DFO was being suppressed by DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans).

Here we are again. DFO is completely silent, they have not even acknowledged that the Fraser sockeye crash pattern is extremely specific and provided the media with misinformation.

A judicial inquiry will place people under oath so they can be heard over the politics.

Please go to Peter Julian’s website: http://peterjulian.ndp.ca/node/864

And download the petition document, and sign: http://peterjulian.ndp.ca/sites/defa...02009.ENG_.pdf

This has to be a paper copy, there can be 1 signature on a page, or a full page of signatures, the address is on the document and postage to the federal government is free.

You cannot say you care about wild salmon if you don’t make this effort. This will make a very big difference in the future of BC and the eastern pacific.

Alexandra Morton
Www.adopt-a-fry.org

[Fisherforever]

I've got copies in the two fishing shops in Chilliwack, even hit the upper Vedder today and got 2 1/2 more pages of signatures.

[whitewater_cowboy]

Any shops on the south Island carrying any copies for concerned anglers to sign? I received the email from Alexandra Morton, but, I don't have a printer and don't know anyone who does. With all the griping I've done to anyone who'll listen, I don't want to be beatin' a drum and not scratching my name where counts!

[chauchey]

I'll head into a shop tomorrow and sign. Thanks for the heads up!

[nebc]

I hope it all helps salmon, but setting hopes aside my observation from 1970 through December 2003 working for government tells a clear picture - that petitions simply do not work in spite of good intentions.

What works are letters to your political representatives with clear threats about losing voting support, letters to the news media and presentations to your local angling club memberships to put the bureacracy under meaningful pressure.

Alexandra Morton has been doing a decent mix of all this if you have been reading her emails. It seems to me, that she is less effective than she might be in that she does not appear to be obtaining much news media support.

[Beeswax]

It’s a good day for wild fish!

Thank you to all of you who supported this, and please continue to write to your MP, MLA, Prime Minister and Fisheries Minister regarding the threat to wild fish from fish farms.

Rafe Mair summarized it well in this article. http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/11/02/NDPSockeyeInquiry/

SEE FORWARDED E-MAIL FROM ALEXANDRA BELOW
Hello

Thank you SO much to ALL of you for contacting your MPs and the Prime Minister of Canada. A Judicial Inquiry into the disappearance of the Fraser sockeye salmon has just been called by Prime Minister Harper!

We don't know the scope of this Inquiry yet, we will learn that tomorrow, so optimism is cautious. It is essential that the scope of the mandate include review of events in the marine environment

This is the first step to straightening out the tangled politics that I feel is killing our wild fish and I owe great thanks to you.

Alexandra Morton
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
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[chauchey]

Fish in the path of 'progress'

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans was stripped of outspoken scientists back in 1986 when the two governments and Alcan agreed on the Kemano Completion project and DFO did what the politicians told them to do. That culture remains.

The only thing holding back this project is the migration of sockeye (mainly) that pass through the Fraser River past Lytton to northern spawning beds. A huge dam! Wouldn't it be wonderful! Power galore and no more of those damned salmon! If through a happy combination of fish farms and lack of care about habitat we can wipe out those salmon runs! Indeed, if we play our cards right, the only salmon left will be in wilderness rivers, left to satisfy wealthy fishermen on expensive fishing safaris. When that happy day comes, the DFO and the federal government will be rid of this millstone and there will be oodles of power to sell to California so that swimming pools can be kept warm!

Thats an interesting thought...it certainly seems to fit, especially in the light of all the power projects being started recently...

[count]

oohh don't get me started on the independant power projects, thats a hot topic.