Yeah, so lets throw a net across the river.

If "Wild salmon are the lifeblood of B.C." what is the lifeblood of Wild Salmon? Clean, cool, free flowing rivers? Limited harvests?

None of those have anything to do with those secretive Norwegian people. Has to do with those living along the rivers. While there might be a few of Norwegian ancestry, I do not think they are any more secretive than anyone of other ancestries.

Gus

What secretive Norwegian people are you talking about?
The story said nothing about secretive Norwegian people.
It did however mention secretive Norwegian corporations.
You know, the ones that have decimated their own countries wild salmon stocks due to their corporate greed!

The credibility of this site just keeps diving. Alexandra Morton is widely regarded as a quack by her peers. As usual in our society its the loudmouth idiots that get all the attention (Paris Hilton, Danny Williams, etc). This is nothing more than posturing by the aboriginal mafia. Its like when a biker gang puts on a bikini carwash for blind kids with girls from their stripjoint.

I'm on Alexandra Morton's email list and I admire what she is doing.

The sea lice from the Norwegain corporations and the violations from them that treat our laws like they are of no concern to them is the single biggest issue on our coast, and the single biggest factor effecting the wild salmon at this time. The lasy is fighting the good fight no matter what anyone else says about her... she wants science to provide us with the answer and her critics want to deny science.

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"Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute."
-- from "1984"

I agree gamblor. How come there were so many salmon tis year Morton? Thought all those evil fish farms killed them off. Anyone know where Morton gets her money?

opps lol I meant to say lady not lasy... my mistake.

Some fish food for thought: http://www.salmonguy.org/?p=2396

More pink, chum and sockeye salmon are in the North Pacific than have ever been seen before, around twice as much as in the 1950s, a Canada-U.S. research team says in a just published article on historical trends.

Around 718 million adult salmon returned to their freshwater homes in 2005, the most recent year that figures were available, the research team says. The evidence indicates the ocean is becoming “overcrowded with salmon,” said Randall Peterman, the Canada Research Chair in Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management, and a member of the research team.

Yes this has a lot to do with hatchery which is an issue but the point is there where supposed to declining stocks. Doom and gloom equals more money for more studies, keeps the income rolling in.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/north-pacific-overcrowded-with-salmon-as-population-soars/article1740524/

Oh they also threw in climate change, that is always good for funding. Did not say if the climate change was warming or cooling.