Représentations 0313-LSSS_844435

Déposant : Lower Shuswap Stewardship Society

Communauté : Enderby

Déposé le : Octobre 25, 2010

Résumé :
La Lower Shuswap Stewardship Society demande qu’on remette au commissaire des données complètes sur la santé et les maladies des poissons de fermes d’élevage remontant au moment où la population du saumon rouge du Fraser a commencé à décliner. Sans données complètes, l’enquête de la Commission sera incomplète et imparfaite.

Représentations :
The Lower Shuswap River saw two million sockeye return this year. This river system also supports 4 other salmon species. This year's return demonstrates what is possible.

We are concerned about the declining numbers over the past 10 - 20 years.

Our returning fish must swim past intense aquaculture developments during their migrations to and return from their feeding grounds.

What is the effect of aquaculture on our returns? Are fish farm diseases and parasites being transferred to wild salmon?

Our group requests that Judge Cohen be given complete health and disease data for all salmon farms since this decline began. Without a full data set all investigation will be flawed and incomplete.

We support Judge Cohen in conducting a thorough, unbiased study of the declining salmon stocks.