The petition is 3,404 pages long and weighs 40 lbs

On May 27, 2015 the Premier of BC received a petition signed by 108,000 people asking her not to expand the industry.

This petition is still growing.

Will the Premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, grant the salmon farming industry the new licences of occupation to allow the industry to expand, or she is in a lonely place when she stands in support of salmon farms?

British Columbians, BC businesses, societies and even municipalities are not standing with her.

LINK (via: Alexandra Morton)

Attention Fishing Community - Help Save Sandflea!

Alejandro Vega Cruz, know the angling world over as "Sandflea," needs our help! He's in need of a new heart valve and the angling community is uniting to raise the funds he needs!

A Go Fund Me site has been created on Sandflea's behalf so please consider making a donation today.

Keep Nestle out of the Columbia River

This bit of news boggles the mind.

From The Oregonian: The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has agreed to trade its water rights at Oxbow Springs to pave the way for a Nestle bottled water plant in Cascade Locks.

Cascade Locks City Administrator Gordon Zimmerman said the city and the state wildlife agency jointly submitted paperwork Friday morning to initiate a water rights cross transfer, with the state trading spring water for the city’s well water.

The Columbia River Gorge city will then pass the spring water on to Nestle, which will bottle and sell it.

What’s the problem with this plan? Other than trading your water rights off to a multi national corporation?

Well, the bottling plant could adversely affect migratory fish. Salmon and steelhead passing through the Lower Columbia to points and tributaries upriver often have to deal with high temperatures, and Herman Creek provides a cold water thermal refuge.

LINK (via The Caddis Fly)

You can TAKE ACTION here.

Read all about Nestle's predatory practices.

First Nation defends herring against DFO's stealth fishery, bad science

On the central coast of British Columbia, a coastal community is fighting for the survival of a species so important to the ecology and culture of the north Pacific that it is considered a foundation of the coast.

Watch this short video on the battle that the Heiltsuk First Nation are courageously waging against the Canadian government’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the unsustainable corporate-owned kill-fishery. There is still hope that our coast will witness a return of the great herring runs, but it cannot happen while this indiscriminate industrial fishery is allowed to continue.

TAKE ACTION HERE

Save the Wild Steelhead on Washington's Olympic Peninsula

Shane Anderson spent three years and some serious sweat equity making his film Wild Reverence.

Now he's asking you to take just 90 seconds to add your voice in support of native wild steelhead on the Olympic Penninsula.

LINK

If Shane's appeal doesn't do the trick maybe this photo will help inspire you to sign his petition. Snapped this shot yesterday at the City Fish Co. at Pike Place Market.

Take Action: Honor Three Great Oregon Rivers

From the Native Fish Society:

The Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation (OPRD) is currently accepting public comment on their 2014 Scenic Waterways Assessment, which is the first step in designating segments of the Molalla, Chetco and Grande Ronde rivers into the state's network of Scenic Waterways.

Take action now by sending the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation a comment showing your support for the addition of three great Oregon Rivers into the state’s network of Scenic Waterways.