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Summaries of submissions received by the commission are listed below. Click on the name of a submission to read it in its entirety. The number attached to each submission is used for internal tracking purposes and does not reflect the number of submissions received to that point.

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Submission List

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1127-KRSL_214274


Submitter: Kintama Research Services Ltd

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: Dr. David Welch submits this research proposal to report an important addition to his understanding of where sockeye smolt mortality occurs. In prior testimony at the commission, he reported that most mortality occurred after passing the northern end of Vancouver Island, but he has since re-analyzed his previously collected data to directly compare survival rates of acoustically tagged sockeye smolts migrating in the Strait of Georgia and then in Discovery Passage/Queen Charlotte Strait and found a level of higher mortality that may explain the 10-fold decline in Fraser sockeye survival seen since 1990. To address these issues, Dr. Welch and his colleagues designed a new study building off the results from the POST prototype array.

1157-WARES


Submitter: Roy Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend the introduction of a code of science conduct to ensure the integrity of science used by decision makers and policy makers.

1018-HOLLAND


Submitter: Mark Holland

Community: 150 Mile House

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: All evidence has to be heard.

1130-REID


Submitter: Dennis Reid

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend an independent testing system for all diseases and parasites of wild and farmed salmon in BC and the removal of all fish farms from salmon migration routes and put them on land within two years.

1161-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: Letters from 1987 show politicians’ support for continuing commercial fishing in light of land claims negotiations.

1102-WILLIAMS


Submitter: robert williams

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Ensure all data is publicly available

1151-PARADIS


Submitter: RICHARD PARADIS

Community: VANCOUVER

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: Protect wild salmon stocks from corporate greed.

1152-NANSON


Submitter: Kirsten Nanson

Community: Gibsons

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: The fish farm issue is a good example of how corporations are influencing our government, and how DFO seems completely unable or unwilling to address the continual decline of our common fishery resources.

1153-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Dec 17, 2011

Summary: Some participants have manipulated information to keep it out of the hands of other participants and out of public view. The commission should explain the options for redress of contemptible behaviour by those who sought to prevent this inquiry from finding fault or stumbling upon it.

1155-WGFCI_393396


Submitter: Wild Game Fish Conservation International

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Dec 18, 2011

Summary: Given the expert testimony during the ISA / ISAv hearings it would be wise to remove open net Atlantic salmon feedlots from wild Pacific salmon migration routes.

1158-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: DFO are pawns of the global engineers who “get it done” with the help of corporate media, spin and professed benefits to the Canadian taxpayer.

1160-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: A document shows that the government does not intend to settle land claims at the expense of the non-native fishing community.

1163-DOUMENC


Submitter: Ivan Doumenc

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: Links to blog entries about the commission’s proceedings.

1156-TSMCF_258451


Submitter: The SOS Marine Conservation Foundation

Community: Port McNeill

Date Submitted: Dec 19, 2011

Summary: This submission provides further information regarding recommendations made in the public submission to the commission 0244-TSMCF_226000 in light of recent developments regarding aquaculture.

1165-ERIN


Submitter: Lynn Erin

Community: Anglemont

Date Submitted: Dec 20, 2011

Summary: All farms should be moved off migratory salmon routes immediately. Research should be ongoing and transparent, and DFO's mandate should be to protect wild fish. The precautionary principle should be used regarding all aspects of the aquaculture industry.

1164-BEHRHORST


Submitter: Bruce Behrhorst

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 20, 2011

Summary: Governments are supporting industries that pollute.

1166-RUSSELL


Submitter: Mary Russell

Community: Port Hardy

Date Submitted: Dec 20, 2011

Summary: DFO is incorrigible, because it has known ISA is here and done nothing but cover and deny. The Commissioner should come down with firm hand to assure that DFO will not be able to carry on as before.

1167-CLARK


Submitter: Dale Clark

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Dec 22, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should be made to conform with laws that protect the environment.

1014-SKLAPSKY


Submitter: Bob sklapsky

Community: Williams Lake BC

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The commission should re-examine how the federal government handled the egg importation and ISAv situation.

1071-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: 1993 letter to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.

Submission List

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1069-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: It is critical that the commission state that those salmon fishermen have the priority when socio-economic considerations are mandated.

1024-SINCLAIR


Submitter: Ross Sinclair

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Commissioner Cohen should have his head read.

1129-WOODLEY


Submitter: Kathleen Woodley

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1125-CAREY


Submitter: Charlotte Carey

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1124-SINCLAIR


Submitter: Gary & Sharon Sinclair

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1137-NELSON


Submitter: Vic Nelson

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from the ocean.

1104-NEMEC


Submitter: John Nemec

Community: Cleveland

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1103-SLATERMSCBIOJD


Submitter: Dr. Catherine Slater MSc (Bio), JD

Community: Quadra Island

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1068-ROBICHAUD


Submitter: Charles Robichaud

Community: Bowen Island

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1101-OLSEN


Submitter: dave olsen

Community: lasqueti

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1100-JENSEN


Submitter: Leona Jensen

Community: Pender Island

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1099-SEAMAN


Submitter: Ben Seaman

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1098-FUDALI


Submitter: josepj Fudali

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1093-HOLLINGSWORTH


Submitter: Adele Hollingsworth

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Take fish farms out of the ocean.

1096-OUELLLETTE


Submitter: H. Dirk Ouelllette

Community: Cobble Hill

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The evidence shows that salmon farming has a negative impact on wild stock and should be removed from coastal waters.

1094-PURVIS


Submitter: Russ Purvis

Community: McBride

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1092-ZENGER


Submitter: Ruth Zenger

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1090-FLEMING


Submitter: Gail Fleming

Community: Lasqueti Is

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon should be the priority over farmed fish.

1091-TAYLOR


Submitter: david taylor

Community: n. vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1089-MURDOCK


Submitter: Ronda Murdock

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: If we lose the pacific salmon there is nothing that the farmed fish industry could do to make up for that.

Submission List

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1088-GOWER


Submitter: Bill Gower

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1123-CHOUINARD


Submitter: Guy Chouinard

Community: Canmore

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1122-FOX


Submitter: liz fox

Community: Lantzville

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1086-GERHART


Submitter: Geoff Gerhart

Community: Whistler BC

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1085-WILCOX


Submitter: C. William Wilcox

Community: Virginia Beach

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Start looking out for your citizens instead of corporations.

1121-WOOTTEN


Submitter: elizabeth Wootten

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1120-DUCHENE


Submitter: Gael Duchene

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1084-BABCOCK


Submitter: Carla Babcock

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1083-HEPPER


Submitter: Katherine Hepper

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1081-YEREX


Submitter: dawn yerex

Community: prince george

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms should not be allowed in the ocean.

1082-VIENNEAU


Submitter: hubert j vienneau

Community: port hastings

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms should be moved onto land.

1119-ERIKSON


Submitter: Joanne Erikson

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1080-SHANNON


Submitter: Patrick Shannon

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1079-GALLANT


Submitter: Connie & JD Gallant

Community: Quilcene

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1078-EMERY


Submitter: Maryann Emery

Community: Golden

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1118-PHILLIPS


Submitter: Wilfred Phillips

Community: Madeira Park

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1117-RUTMAN


Submitter: Deborah Rutman

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The governments of Canada and of British Columbia should take immediate action to alter and coordinate their regulations, policies and/or legislation to ensure that salmon farming is better regulated, and that open-net salmon farming is banned.

1116-BEXSON


Submitter: susan bexson

Community: sooke

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1115-MITCHELL


Submitter: Melissa Mitchell

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1077-SWALLOW


Submitter: Marilyn Swallow

Community: Ladysmith

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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1076-TOLTON


Submitter: Larry Tolton

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1114-BIFFERT


Submitter: Wayne Biffert

Community: Williams Lake

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1075-ORCHISTON


Submitter: George Orchiston

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1113-WAGNER


Submitter: Gloria Wagner

Community: SSI

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1074-CORSIGLIA


Submitter: John Corsiglia

Community: Sooke

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms in the ocean are not private, the ocean is a shared resource.

1073-TEBBUTT


Submitter: Peter Tebbutt

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1112-HANSEN


Submitter: Karen Hansen

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1111-KERR


Submitter: Gordon Kerr

Community: Edmonton

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1110-VADEBONCOEUR


Submitter: Nathan Vadeboncoeur

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1108-COOK


Submitter: Jackie Cook

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The failure of the DFO to share key information with the public about the health of wild salmon seriously undermines the credibility of the government's position that salmon farming is not a serious risk to the health of the BC coastal ecosystem.

1016-FOGEL


Submitter: Ken Fogel

Community: Stone Mtn.

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: As a consumer, I'm very concerned about the prevalence of the ISA virus that has been found in Atlantic salmon.

1011-SUN


Submitter: Michelle Sun

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Listen to Alexandra Morton.

1109-CLIFFE


Submitter: Nadgelin Cliffe

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1005-STEVENS


Submitter: John Stevens

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The Cohen Commission should demand that both the provincial and federal government open all of their information records to the public regarding diseases like ISA.

0998-FRAKE


Submitter: Rita Frake

Community: Kelowna

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Independent studies should be carried out to monitor fish farms.

0994-DUNAWAY


Submitter: Rick Dunaway

Community: Cobble Hill

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: It’s time the federal fisheries did their job.

1097-JIRAVA


Submitter: Robert Jirava

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1107-MATHESON


Submitter: Cory Matheson

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1070-OUELLETTE


Submitter: Dennis Ouellette

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1106-FOOT


Submitter: paula foot

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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1105-BONA


Submitter: Byron Bona

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1067-WINTER


Submitter: John Winter

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1066-DOHERTY


Submitter: Beau Doherty

Community: Ottawa

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1065-WHEELER


Submitter: lynne wheeler

Community: fanny Bay

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1064-GUNN


Submitter: brian gunn

Community: campbell river

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1063-CHIDLEY


Submitter: Cyndy and Frank Chidley

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1062-OCHMANEK


Submitter: Edwin Ochmanek

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1061-GALANOS


Submitter: Chris Galanos

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1060-KINCAID


Submitter: Daryl Kincaid

Community: Whistler

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1059-SUMMERS


Submitter: Steve Summers

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1058-WEAVER


Submitter: Rose Weaver

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1057-ALCOCK


Submitter: Roland Alcock

Community: Sooke

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1056-MARTIN


Submitter: Donna Martin

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1055-SCHREIBER


Submitter: Catherine Schreiber

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1054-SIMPSON


Submitter: Janet Simpson

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1053-JONES


Submitter: Robert Jones

Community: Kelowna

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1052-CARDINAL


Submitter: will cardinal

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Healthy fish are what matter.

1051-DUNBAR


Submitter: Joanna Dunbar

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1050-KEIR


Submitter: andy keir

Community: thetis island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1048-JOHNSON


Submitter: James d Johnson

Community: m

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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1047-KNIGHT


Submitter: Robert Knight

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1046-PIERNITZKI


Submitter: Stephan Piernitzki

Community: Nelson

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1044-CLARKE


Submitter: Christopher Clarke

Community: Calgary

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1043-TASKER


Submitter: James Tasker

Community: Sudbury

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1042-MCLAREN


Submitter: Peter McLaren

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1041-MARCOUX


Submitter: Michael Marcoux

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1040-SMITH


Submitter: Robert Smith

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1039-DARWIN


Submitter: Karl Darwin

Community: Lasqueti Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1038-FOSTER


Submitter: Doris Foster

Community: Falkland

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1037-FOSTER


Submitter: Ruth Foster

Community: Belcarra

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1036-ORR


Submitter: William Orr

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1035-GRANT


Submitter: S. Grant

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1034-FIELD


Submitter: Dorothy Field

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1033-FISCHER


Submitter: Mike Fischer

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1032-MORRISON


Submitter: Mike Morrison

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1030-BAXTER


Submitter: David Gordoon Baxter

Community: Lee Creek,

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1029-PEARSON


Submitter: Margaret Pearson

Community: Sechelt

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1028-OSEENSENDA


Submitter: Kathryn Oseen-Senda

Community: Seattle

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1027-CARTER


Submitter: Chris Carter

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1026-NEILSON


Submitter: Dorothy Neilson

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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1025-BOREK


Submitter: Elizabeth Borek

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1022-WGFCI_961383


Submitter: Wild Game Fish Conservation International

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1021-BYE


Submitter: Buffy Bye

Community: Quathiaski Cove

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1020-FITZPATRICK


Submitter: Pamela Fitzpatrick

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1019-CHASE


Submitter: Richard Chase

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1017-TIDSWELL


Submitter: brad tIdswell

Community: wInlaw

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1015-PRATT


Submitter: Sheila Pratt

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1013-SEIER


Submitter: Frank Seier

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1012-JOHNSON


Submitter: Matt Johnson

Community: Sooke

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1010-WADDELL


Submitter: Heather Waddell

Community: Sechelt

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1009-THOMPSON


Submitter: Dennis Thompson

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1008-WATTS


Submitter: Thomas Watts

Community: Bellvue

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1007-SIMMONS


Submitter: Greg Simmons

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1006-KEARNS


Submitter: ELIZABETH KEARNS

Community: white rock

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1004-GREGR


Submitter: Edward Gregr

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1003-STARY


Submitter: Lynn Stary

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1002-PICHEACUTE


Submitter: Aline Piché

Community: Cherryville

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1001-TREIBERG


Submitter: Anders Treiberg

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1000-DUPONT


Submitter: laura dupont

Community: port coquitlam

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0999-YEO


Submitter: Margaret Yeo

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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0997-BARTHEL


Submitter: Don Barthel

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0996-BAILEY


Submitter: Susan Bailey

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0995-HODGES


Submitter: Susan Hodges

Community: Delta,

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0993-STIRRETT


Submitter: Russell Stirrett

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0992-NORD


Submitter: Celia Nord

Community: Chase

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0991-WRENCH


Submitter: Calvin Wrench

Community: Sicamous

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0990-MCKINLAY


Submitter: Brian McKinlay

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0989-ART(_336502


Submitter: Artist Response Team (ART)

Community: Crofton

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0988-FULTON


Submitter: Kim Fulton

Community: Armstrong

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: ùThe hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0987-QUITZAU


Submitter: Mae Quitzau

Community: Pender Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon are in trouble from various threats like overfishing, climate change and salmon farms.

0986-CAMPBELL


Submitter: Marie Campbell

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0985-RINNE


Submitter: Eric Rinne

Community: New Westminster

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0984-COTTER


Submitter: G Cotter

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0983-THURGOOD


Submitter: Virginia Thurgood

Community: Sechelt

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0982-DEHAAN


Submitter: John de Haan

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0981-BOSCH


Submitter: Anne Bosch

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: I stand by Alexandra Morton.

0980-MORRIS


Submitter: Helen Morris

Community: NORTH VANCOUVER

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0979-EVERATT


Submitter: Robert Everatt

Community: Kelowna

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0978-DOMOVICH


Submitter: John Domovich

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Listen to the unbiased opinions of NGO biologists and take Ms. Morton's input seriously.

0977-RAINWALKER


Submitter: Ellen Rainwalker

Community: Cumberland, BC

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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0976-FINLAY


Submitter: Joy and Cam Finlay

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0975-WYENBERG


Submitter: Jean Wyenberg

Community: Gabriola Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0974-DAVEY


Submitter: Edward Davey

Community: Burnaby BC

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0973-MILLIGAN


Submitter: George Milligan

Community: Bowen Island

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0972-JONES


Submitter: Susan Jones

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0971-MCKECHNIE


Submitter: Stephen McKechnie

Community: White Fox

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0970-HARRISON


Submitter: Helene Harrison

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0969-ALEXANDRE


Submitter: Eric Alexandre

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0968-WADDEN


Submitter: Holly Wadden

Community: S. Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0967-TAYLOR


Submitter: Lynn Taylor

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0966-MALCOLMSON


Submitter: samuel malcolmson

Community: toronto

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0965-KUUSISTO


Submitter: Esa Kuusisto

Community: Ladtsmith

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0964-WILKINSON


Submitter: Chris Wilkinson

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0963-WOODS


Submitter: Jacquie Woods

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0961-BEATON


Submitter: Trudy Beaton

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0960-WRIGHT


Submitter: Jim Wright

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0959-STENSRUD


Submitter: glen stensrud

Community: kamloops

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0958-MACKAY


Submitter: Donna Mackay

Community: Port McNeill

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0957-FORSTER


Submitter: Jonathan Forster

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0956-HASKELL


Submitter: Fred Haskell

Community: Bellingham

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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0955-SANFORD


Submitter: Dianne Sanford

Community: Roberts Creek

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0954-ELLIS


Submitter: Rev. Jordan Ellis

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0953-GOOD


Submitter: Linnea Good

Community: Summerland

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0952-COTGRAVE


Submitter: Janet Cotgrave

Community: Halfmoon Bay

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0951-TOWNSEND


Submitter: Dale Townsend

Community: Salmon Arm

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0950-AKERLY


Submitter: Mike Akerly

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0949-JORDAN


Submitter: Geoff Jordan

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should not be in open pens, but should be in closed containment and out of wild fish routes.

0948-NEWMAN


Submitter: Jeffrey Newman

Community: 108 Mile Ranch

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0947-FORTIN


Submitter: Paul Fortin

Community: Toronto

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

0946-BRIDGE


Submitter: Tyee Bridge

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1154-RIMMER


Submitter: Wilf Rimmer

Community: Slocan Park

Date Submitted: Dec 18, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1149-MCNAMEE


Submitter: sandy mcnamee

Community: white rock

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: Get salmon farms out of the ocean, they are killing our wild salmon stocks and harming our eagles, bears, forests and oceans.

1145-RONBACK


Submitter: James Ronback

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: The Cohen Commission must direct DFO and others to improve their prediction performance and use new statistical tools.

1135-CRUICKSHANK


Submitter: Katherine Cruickshank

Community: Port Alberni

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: I would be interested to see if ISAV has ever been found in Alaskan salmon, particularly ocean-ranched salmon.

1072-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2011

Summary: Part two of a 1993 letter to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.

1049-SPENCER


Submitter: Tony Spencer

Community: Creston

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Move fish farms out of the ocean.

1045-SANDERS


Submitter: Gillian Sanders

Community: Meadow Creek

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Make federal fisheries test farmed fish for disease and make the results public information.

1031-HARDACKER


Submitter: Diana Hardacker

Community: Chemainus

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: Fish farms must be moved onto land.

1150-POWELL


Submitter: christine Powell

Community: Saanich

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1148-GOWER


Submitter: Ronald Gower

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

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1147-BAILE


Submitter: L Baile

Community: Pender Island

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1136-HYKIN


Submitter: Martin Hykin

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1134-INGERSOLL


Submitter: nancy ingersoll

Community: VERNON

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1133-MCNAB


Submitter: hugh mcnab

Community: bc

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1132-HEIDRICK


Submitter: william heidrick

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: The hearings on ISAv should be live streamed.

1131-EYRE


Submitter: SUSAN EYRE

Community: YAHK

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: I will be watching closely to see if you are working on behalf of Canada, or if you are selling our birthright away for profit to some corporation.

1128-DAVIS


Submitter: Ryan Davis

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2011

Summary: Please do not allow Atlantic Salmon farming to occur.

1146-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd`

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Dec 16, 2011

Summary: A song for wild salmon

0945-KOCH


Submitter: Angela Koch

Community: Quathiaski Cove

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: I would like to have the ISAv hearings live streamed.

0944-WARES


Submitter: Royt Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 13, 2011

Summary: A potential outcome of the Cohen Commission should be a better policy process in the DFO. DFO should give as much significance and funding to genomics and biosurveillance of the Pacific Salmon as it does to the Atlantic Salmon. DFO should ensure they have a properly funded biosurveillance system using all the tools of molecular genetics. It is prudent to remove fish farms from the migration routes of wild salmon.

0943-SHIELS


Submitter: Dolores Shiels

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Dec 12, 2011

Summary: There are people out there that know the truth about ISA and fish farming and I trust that this commission is going to get to the bottom of it.

0942-FLOODY


Submitter: Eileen Floody

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Dec 12, 2011

Summary: Salmon farming, of any kind is unsustainable and damages the environment. ISAv is present in BC waters, despite the denials of DFO.

0941-SCHRODER


Submitter: Jill Schroder

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 12, 2011

Summary: The commission should hold DFO accountable for its mandate to protect wild salmon. Fish farms must be removed from migratory routes of salmon and moved onto land.

0940-BLAND


Submitter: Charlie Bland

Community: Heriot Bay

Date Submitted: Dec 9, 2011

Summary: The commission should look at collusion between Fisheries and Oceans, the fish farm industry and the ministries in charge of fish health. Fish farms on the migratory routes of wild stocks should be stopped until more is understood about ISAv.

0935-FALL


Submitter: Michael Fall

Community: Ladysmith

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: DFO has not told the truth about what they know and in BC, should be disbanded and relieved of any responsibility for the protection of coastal flora and fauna.

0934-BRADEN


Submitter: les braden

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: The conduct of DFO in failing to protect the ocean from ISAV is appalling and criminal and should be prosecuted. Turning the ISAV virus loose in BC is the same as a terrorist releasing anthrax in a postal station. I applaud Justice Cohen for his commitment to flushing out the truth of this matter.

0939-HANNAY


Submitter: Bob Hannay

Community: Errington

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: DFO is in a conflict of interest, so an internationally neutral and respected lab should gather and extensively test salmon from various points along the coast. Dr. Kristi Miller’s work should be funded and made public.

0938-WOUDSTRA


Submitter: Kevin Woudstra

Community: Smithers

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: Politics cannot be allowed to influence scientific evidence and the DFO has lost all credibility.

0937-SLOBODIAN


Submitter: Mayana Slobodian

Community: Toronto

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: Open pen fish farms are profit driven and irresponsible.

0936-WARES


Submitter: Roy Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend that the various molecular biologists in BC, the US and Norway develop a code of practice and performance standards to address ISAV and other viruses. Another recommendation should be that testing laboratories be independent of the regulatory agencies and overseen by an independent scientific panel. A third recommendation should be that if there is even a small probability of a virus being present in the wild salmon population, existing fish farms be isolated from the migratory routes of wild salmon.

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0932-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 7, 2011

Summary: What would wild salmon cost for the public at large if there was no commercial catch?

0933-GULAK


Submitter: Randy Gulak

Community: Chilliwack, B.C.

Date Submitted: Dec 7, 2011

Summary: The commission should discuss how to do more ISAv testing if DFO is announcing cutbacks in this very department.

0929-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 6, 2011

Summary: Definitions for commercial fishermen and recreational fishermen are confusing.

0931-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 6, 2011

Summary: Who are the stakeholders who derive their income from Total Allowable Catch (TAC) or Commercial Allowable Catch (CAC)?

0928-WGFCI_325249


Submitter: Wild Game Fish Conservation International

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Dec 5, 2011

Summary: Canadian and American scientists should work together to determine the impacts and course of action associated with recent and past detections of ISAv in wild Pacific salmon.

0927-ORRLANSDOWNE


Submitter: Heather Orr/Lansdowne

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Dec 5, 2011

Summary: If the Canadian government doesn't listen and put wild salmon and the coast first, we are all going to pay dearly.

0926-PARTON


Submitter: Kathy Parton

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Dec 3, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms are disease incubators hurting wild salmon. Positive ISAv results came from reputable labs. DFO cannot be trusted. Remove open net fish farms from the ocean.

0925-TAYLOR


Submitter: Alison Taylor

Community: Halfmoon Bay

Date Submitted: Dec 2, 2011

Summary: Ban caged salmon farms along the BC coast.

0924-FLAGEL


Submitter: Gary Flagel

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Dec 2, 2011

Summary: All documents on fish farming should be published for public review.

0921-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 1, 2011

Summary: Without integrating all data coast-wide from commercial fishermen, there is minimal chance for a successful future for BC's remaining salmon stocks.

0922-PRATT


Submitter: Sheila Pratt

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Dec 1, 2011

Summary: Apply the precautionary principle and remove fish farms from their present locations long enough to allow for the revival of Fraser River sockeye salmon to know if they have affected the wild salmon.

0920-WILCOX


Submitter: James Wilcox

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2011

Summary: Legislation developed by US Senator Maria Cantwell and other west coast senators should be embraced by both Canada and the US who have so very much riding on healthy wild salmon.

0916-MITCHELL


Submitter: Willie Mitchell

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2011

Summary: DFO has a conflict of interest regarding aquaculture. Review the leaked 2004 DFO draft manuscript showing ISA was identified eight years ago.

0918-BAUER


Submitter: Marcel Bauer

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should be only allowed in inland, closed containment systems.

0917-PUTT


Submitter: Annika Putt

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2011

Summary: Low returns of Fraser River sockeye salmon in 2009 were most likely caused by poor physical and biological conditions in the Strait of Georgia, cumulative effects of high temperatures in the Fraser River, and various environmental stressors. To reverse the current decline in Fraser River sockeye productivity we must direct science towards specific management outcomes; create and maintain a comprehensive public database for BC salmon stocks; and put greater emphasis on salmon conservation in management plans and policies.

0912-TEMPLE


Submitter: keith temple

Community: terrace

Date Submitted: Nov 29, 2011

Summary: Profits to foreign-owned fish farm companies are influencing the federal and BC governments lack of action on forcing fish farms out of the ocean.

0915-BROWN


Submitter: Terry L Brown

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Nov 29, 2011

Summary: Recommend the creation of a ministry for the protection of fish and oceans, allowing regional field and science staff to run the show. Start implementing the Wild Salmon Policy.

0914-MERCER


Submitter: Darlene Mercer

Community: Pitt Meadows

Date Submitted: Nov 29, 2011

Summary: Independent third parties should test for the ISA virus in areas where Alexandra Morton says it has been confirmed.

0908-MACLEOD


Submitter: Bruce MacLeod

Community: Horsefly

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: Ban all open net fish farm operations in Canada

0906-NICOLI


Submitter: Mishah NIcoli

Community: Spruce Grove

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: Save the wild salmon.

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0911-MARTIN


Submitter: Donna Martin

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: It is apparent that the ISA virus been introduced into BC waters by the salmon farming industry and DFO is trying to cover it up. Listen to Alexandra Morton.

0910-HELMER


Submitter: Jeanette Helmer

Community: Pemberton

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: Preserve salmon spawning streams and rivers.

0905-SOANES


Submitter: Sally Soanes

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Move fish farms onto land.

0904-HARDACKER


Submitter: Diana Hardacker

Community: Chemainus

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Stop putting our wild salmon at risk from disease from fish farms in our ocean.

0901-HOLLISTON


Submitter: Jack Holliston

Community: Lake Cowichan

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Alexander Morton is the only person making the decline of wild salmon public knowledge. Two corrupt governments can be very hard on our health.

0900-WALKER


Submitter: lynn walker

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Get toxic fish farms out of the oceans and make all documents by Alexandra Morton public.

0899-EARLY


Submitter: Erin Early

Community: whistler

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Shut down fish farms or get them in pens on land.

0903-HEATH


Submitter: Darlene Heath

Community: Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are to blame for the decline of sockeye.

0889-WEAVER


Submitter: Rose Weaver

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Allowing salmon eggs to be imported from uncertified hatcheries is not looking after the resource responsibly.

0897-CAMPBELL


Submitter: John Campbell

Community: Gabriola Island

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Why isn’t the government speaking for wild salmon like Alexandra Morton?

0896-LANSEL


Submitter: Toby Lansel

Community: Vancouver B.C.

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Dismantle all salmon farms and charge those that are covering up the danger it poses to our wild salmon.

0888-TEBBUTT


Submitter: Peter Tebbutt

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Hold DFO management accountable for the incidence of ISAV in BC.

0895-MACKEIGAN


Submitter: Betty Lou MacKeigan

Community: Pender Island

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Find the truth for the salmon people.

0886-ROBERTSON


Submitter: bruce robertson

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Alexandra Morton is the most credible player in the inquiry process.

0894-KALJUR


Submitter: Susanna Kaljur

Community: Courtenay BC

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: DFO must prove to the public that there is no evidence of the ISA virus in BC waters.

0893-VETSCH


Submitter: Judith Vetsch

Community: Squamish

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Say no to fish farms located in waters along the coast.

0891-HEMMINGS


Submitter: Edward G. Hemmings

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Self-serving corporations and governments are destroying nature. God will one day put an end to these criminal endeavours.

0890-NAGLE


Submitter: Geraldine Nagle

Community: Voorhees

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Protect wild salmon from diseases spread from fish farms.

0867-MARKO


Submitter: alexei marko

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Open net salmon farms in BC should be prohibited until they can conclusively be proven not to harm wild stocks.

0866-VONHAHN


Submitter: Raynard von Hahn

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Recommend the establishment of an independent environmental protection organization to protect the environment and Pacific salmon. The DFO does not appear to be acting in the best interests of wild salmon. Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

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0885-WGFCI_476484


Submitter: Wild Game Fish Conservation International

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Protect wild salmon from human practices such as open pen salmon farming, irresponsible logging and hydropower.

0863-KOCH


Submitter: Angela Koch

Community: Quathiaski Cove

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Commissioner Cohen is the only hope for wild salmon and should not wait until next year to make recommendations. Fish farming is a disgusting industry and should be put on land.

0862-SHEPPARD


Submitter: Valerie & Kevin Sheppard

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Recommend that all fish farms be removed from BC waters immediately.

0861-MORRIS


Submitter: Tammy Morris

Community: Westholme

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: DFO is in conflict of interest, and whomever is not outraged enough to stand with Alexandra Morton is to blame.

0860-ARDIS


Submitter: Larissa Ardis

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: The Cohen Commission should recommend development of an integrated data collection program, comprehensive research to evaluate identified links between and conflicting scientific conclusions about aquaculture and sockeye health, and action on governance problems (including contradictory mandate and industry capture) in fisheries management.

0859-FORTIN


Submitter: Paul Fortin

Community: Toronto

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: This process is corrupt and a waste of money.

0857-WILTON


Submitter: ron wilton

Community: kelowna

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Who has the most to gain if Fraser River salmon were eradicated? Corporations would be able to create hydroelectric power on the Fraser if the salmon were gone, so perhaps they are at fault.

0856-FINCH


Submitter: laura finch

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Fish farms spreading ISA and other diseases has to stop.

0855-SECCO


Submitter: Dave Secco

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Follow Alexandra Morton’s advice.

0854-MCALISTER


Submitter: hylton mcAlister

Community: duncan

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Alexandra Morton makes a lot of sense and should be paid respect by politicians and bureaucrats.

0853-STEER


Submitter: Norma Steer

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Stop open pen fish farming.

0884-SCHREIBER


Submitter: Catherine Schreiber

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Examine information about disease in wild salmon, such as the ones dying along the Alouette and Pitt rivers.

0883-SIGURGEIRSON


Submitter: pauline sigurgeirson

Community: Otautau

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: All information on disease should be available for public scrutiny and if the farmed salmon are responsible, they should be eliminated.

0882-CAMPBELL


Submitter: John Campbell

Community: Gabriola Island

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: DFO is derelict in its duty to protect both the fish and the fishery. Without the dedication of Alexandra Morton, this commission wouldn’t even exist.

0881-GUILD


Submitter: Brenda Guild

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: The Commissioner should be able to find fault on the part of individuals, communities or organizations.

0852-JEAN


Submitter: Nicole Jean

Community: Pemberton

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Thank you for reopening the hearings to try to learn what is spreading disease.

0880-SCHROEDER


Submitter: diana schroeder

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Consider objective scientific research and recommend that it is impossible for open net farms to operate without harming wild salmon.

0879-SILVERCLOUD


Submitter: David Silvercloud

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Alexandra Morton has no self-interest in exposing problems with the fish farm industry.

0878-WADE


Submitter: Gabriella Wade

Community: Penticton

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: The government has lost the confidence of its citizens by not getting rid of salmon farms in the ocean.

0877-BOCKMAN


Submitter: Neil Bockman

Community: Denman Island

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are the source of the decline. The evidence shows that the ISA virus is in BC waters and actions must be taken immediately.

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0876-ANDREWS


Submitter: bill andrews

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms should be moved inland.

0875-MCPHIE


Submitter: Linda McPhie

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: It is hard to remain optimistic about the chances of the survival of wild salmon because of fish farms and political interference.

0874-RONYECZ


Submitter: Rich ronyecz

Community: qualicum beach

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: DFO is failing to protect wild fish from disease. Salmon farming is spreading ISA-like diseases.

0847-HARVEY


Submitter: Renate Harvey

Community: Surge Narrows

Date Submitted: Nov 19, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms should be moved inland.

0873-FIELD


Submitter: Dorothy Field

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: The Commissioner should recommend the removal of fish farms from BC waters immediately.

0872-AHARONIAN


Submitter: Dave Aharonian

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: The Commissioner should recommend that no new fish farms be allowed in BC waters until all the facts are known about diseases.

0871-BANKS


Submitter: Deborah Banks

Community: Sparks

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Seriously investigate the viruses that are infecting wild sockeye.

0870-CRAWSHAW


Submitter: Jo-Ann Crawshaw

Community: Quathiaski Cove

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Review DFO policies regarding disease.

0869-TIDEY


Submitter: Alec Tidey

Community: Lund

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Stop farmed salmon.

0868-MIKKERS


Submitter: Willem Mikkers

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: I advocate for closed containment in salmon farming.

0851-KARAMESSINES


Submitter: Susan Karamessines

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Nov 24, 2011

Summary: Stop fish farming in Clayaquot Sound.

0849-PROBERT


Submitter: F. Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Nov 23, 2011

Summary: Thank you for facilitating further public discourse.

0845-KNEZEVICH


Submitter: Fred Knezevich

Community: Williams Lake

Date Submitted: Nov 19, 2011

Summary: We need to end the practice of ocean fish farming.

0919-ROBERTS


Submitter: Elise Roberts

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0907-SHEPHERD


Submitter: Shannon Shepherd

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0909-KENDY


Submitter: Nan Kendy

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0902-MCBAIN


Submitter: Ammon McBain

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0892-SCHORLE


Submitter: Peter Schorle

Community: North Saanich

Date Submitted: Nov 26, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0865-ALMS


Submitter: ricardo alms

Community: wpg

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0864-BOUILLET


Submitter: Dan Bouillet

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

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0858-RAYMOND


Submitter: James Raymond

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0846-HARVEY


Submitter: Renate Harvey

Community: Surge Narrows

Date Submitted: Nov 19, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0839-WARES


Submitter: Roy Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2011

Summary: Because of scepticism of the ability of DFO to manage ongoing risks to the Pacific fisheries, not just the Fraser River sockeye runs, the commission is urged to recommend Improved strategic management by the DFO, improved recognition of ecosystem services, marine spatial planning and better use of scientific information in informing policy makers

0838-WARES


Submitter: Roy Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2011

Summary: The Cohen Commission should address the issue of marine spatial planning and make recommendations that future policy directions at the DFO should include better strategic management, development of marine spatial planning, application to areas where there is ecosystem stress and better decision making based on marine spatial planning.

0837-WARES


Submitter: Roy Wares

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2011

Summary: The Cohen Commission should include recommendations on how scientific evidence should be used in future policy making in the DFO.

0840-LOWERY


Submitter: Brennan Lowery

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2011

Summary: Aquaculture-related pathogens, though lacking in data for the 2009 sockeye decline, adversely affect wild salmon populations throughout British Columbia and should be more intensively researched.

0833-S(ENS_237527


Submitter: SENS (Sustainable Environment Network Society)

Community: Vernon B.C.,

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Inform the public about all the issues surrounding fish farms.

0832-DRIEDGER


Submitter: Rick Driedger

Community: Smithers

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0836-FLOODY


Submitter: Eileen Floody

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0841-FOCS_909991


Submitter: Friends of Clayoquot Sound

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0835-MILDE


Submitter: Heike Milde

Community: Hope

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Fish farms have to be on land not in the ocean.

0834-ARNOLD


Submitter: William Arnold

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Open net fish farms are a direct threat to wild salmon.

0830-FOX


Submitter: Zol Fox

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0827-FRANKE


Submitter: Myrna Franke

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 1, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0828-PAZ


Submitter: Tanya Paz

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 1, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0829-HANCOCK


Submitter: Liz Hancock

Community: Maple Ridfge

Date Submitted: Oct 1, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0822-ARMS_667856


Submitter: Alouette River Management Society

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0831-EDWARDS


Submitter: Gary Edwards

Community: Lone Butte

Date Submitted: Oct 2, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0826-HOLT


Submitter: David Holt

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farmers cause destruction to the environment.

0821-DRIEDGER


Submitter: Nicole Driedger

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

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0820-WILLIAMS


Submitter: Lorraine Williams

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Remove foreign-owned fish farms from the migration routes of salmon.

0819-PETERS


Submitter: Lyn Peters

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Salmon should not be farmed in the ocean.

0818-MARTY


Submitter: Gary Marty

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: We need to clearly identify the cause(s) of declining Fraser River sockeye salmon before we can consider cost-effective solutions. Better stock assessment, including telemetry studies, might help better define the problem, but comprehensive fish health assessment has greater potential to identify the cause of the problem.

0816-STANGER


Submitter: Doug Stanger

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0815-CROWSTON


Submitter: Amanda Crowston

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0817-PEARCE


Submitter: Kelly Pearce

Community: Hope

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0825-NIELSEN


Submitter: Terry Nielsen

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend policies to ban commercial fishing and expand salmon farming in BC as a means to relieve pressure on the wild stocks and raise tax revenue to address challenges faced by wild salmon.

0824-SWANSTON


Submitter: Richard Swanston

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: The lack of protection and follow up under the province’s Environmental Review Process is endangering salmon. For example, the Gateway Project requested changes that would affect salmon habitat after the process was completed. The CEAA process is also flawed and should be reviewed.

0814-SCHRODER


Submitter: Martin Schroder

Community: New York

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0823-BLANCHETTE


Submitter: greg blanchette

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0808-DICARLO


Submitter: Nick DiCarlo

Community: Mill Bay

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms are a valuable asset to our economy.

0807-RAYNOLDS


Submitter: Tracy Raynolds

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: DFO should observe the precautionary principle, not promote aquaculture, fund Kristi Miller’s research and remove fish farms from migratory routes.

0806-ANDERSON


Submitter: Gillian Anderson

Community: Merville

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Roberts and Sturgeon Banks provide critical nursery areas for fish, crustaceans, nesting areas for migratory birds and feeding grounds for orca whales. But urbanization is endangering the estuary, and may be contributing to the decline of the salmon populations of the Fraser River. Notably, there is a lack of a master plan to protect remaining Fraser estuarine habitat, inadequate environmental assessment of development projects in the estuary, specifically DeltaPort, and inadequate habitat mitigation and compensation programs.

0804-NOHR


Submitter: Bill Nohr

Community: Port Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0803-TIDEY


Submitter: Alec Tidey

Community: Lund

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0802-PERRY


Submitter: Lyle Perry

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0801-GJERDALEN


Submitter: greig gjerdalen

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0813-FNEN_960120


Submitter: First Nations Environmental Network

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0800-COMPARELLI


Submitter: John Comparelli

Community: Tisbury

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0812-GERHART


Submitter: Geoff Gerhart

Community: Whistler BC

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

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0805-UHRICH


Submitter: LEE UHRICH

Community: ABBOTSFORD BC

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0811-VERNONWOOD


Submitter: sonja vernon-wood

Community: Lee Creek

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon must survive.

0810-ROGERS


Submitter: Scott Rogers

Community: Simoom Sound

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0809-MCCONNELL


Submitter: Amy McConnell

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0772-SCHRODER


Submitter: Jill Schroder

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0771-OSBORNE


Submitter: Philip Osborne

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0770-DYCK


Submitter: Terry Dyck

Community: Vernon

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Fish farms pollute waterways and harm wild fish.

0768-RONBACK


Submitter: James Ronback

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Think about the harm that trace amounts of toxic and flammable jet fuel spills will do to the Fraser River estuary.

0769-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Who Owns the Fish? Who Owns the Water? Watering down of the "precautionary principle" has happened to favour the growth of the aquaculture industry.

0766-GIBSON


Submitter: pat gibson

Community: heriot bay

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0798-SAPLAIROLES


Submitter: Laurent Saplairoles

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0764-LARSON


Submitter: David Larson

Community: Hazelton

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0763-ART(_256969


Submitter: Artist Response Team (ART)

Community: Crofton

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0797-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0762-SASCS_311939


Submitter: Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0761-ALLEN


Submitter: Huguette Allen

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0760-ANDRES


Submitter: Julie Andres

Community: Roberts Creek

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0799-MENARD


Submitter: Heather Menard

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0796-PRENTICE


Submitter: John Prentice

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0759-MARQUETTE


Submitter: Jessica Marquette

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

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0795-ANDERSON


Submitter: Kim Anderson

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0757-STERRITT


Submitter: Lisa Sterritt

Community: Armstrong

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0793-DICKINSON


Submitter: Jay Dickinson

Community: 100 Mile House

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0792-PRATT


Submitter: Sheila Pratt

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0791-LIBERA


Submitter: Rob Libera

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0790-JANZEN


Submitter: Jan Janzen

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0789-NELSON


Submitter: Cynthia Nelson

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0788-DEAN


Submitter: Scott Dean

Community: Ladysmith

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0786-RAYNOLDS


Submitter: Maria Raynolds

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0787-ROSE


Submitter: Mark Rose

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0784-RECHTSCHAFFNER


Submitter: renee rechtschaffner

Community: west vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0783-FORD


Submitter: Colin Ford

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0782-BUCK


Submitter: Helen Buck

Community: Calgary

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0780-MARTIN


Submitter: ken martin

Community: north vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0779-LACHLAN


Submitter: Tom Lachlan

Community: PORT MOODY

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0776-DEAN


Submitter: Paul Dean

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0767-GREEN


Submitter: Mary Green

Community: hagensborg

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Listen to Alexandra Morton.

0758-BOOTH


Submitter: vic booth

Community: nanoose bay

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: We cannot allow our wild salmon to be sacrificed in anyway for corporate profit.

0794-GARDNER


Submitter: Eddie Gardner

Community: Chilliwack

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton and fund Kristi Miller’s research.

0785-THOMAS


Submitter: alex thomas

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make all fish farms land based.

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0778-MAXWELL


Submitter: GILLIAN MAXWELL

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0775-SUTHERLAND


Submitter: Kate Sutherland

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0774-PIERONI


Submitter: Toni Pieroni

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0756-REED


Submitter: Anissa Reed

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2011

Summary: Make public the document produced for the commission by Alexandra Morton.

0754-VNATUOV_664080


Submitter: VENUS Network and the University of Victoria

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2011

Summary: The VENUS cabled network of the University of Victoria has been observing environmental variables (temperature, salinity, oxygen, etc.) continuously since 2008 in the deep waters of the Strait of Georgia off the mouths of the Fraser River. In addition, sonars sense daily vertical migrations of zooplankton, many of which are part of the diet of juvenile salmon, as well as finfish (currently being identified) and whales. We are keenly interested in participating with DFO and other agencies in monitoring the ecosystem and environment of the Strait of Georgia.

0747-TURNER


Submitter: Toril Turner

Community: Comox

Date Submitted: Sep 26, 2011

Summary: Take open net fish farms off the migration routes of wild salmon.

0842-JOHNSON


Submitter: Sonja and Robert Johnson

Community: North Saanich

Date Submitted: Oct 7, 2011

Summary: Resolve the conflict of interest in having DFO responsible for both promoting the salmon farm industry and the sustainability of wild Pacific salmon.

0752-ORRLANSDOWNE


Submitter: Heather Orr/Lansdowne

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2011

Summary: A story about why open net pen fish farms should not be allowed in the ocean.

0750-ALEKSICH


Submitter: Denise Aleksich

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2011

Summary: If there is any chance that the fish farming industry is harming sockeye stocks, how can the reward be worth the risk of losing such an invaluable resource?

0744-JPG_300758


Submitter: J Peachy Gallery

Community: Vancouver BC

Date Submitted: Sep 26, 2011

Summary: A poem and photo of a rally for wild salmon.

0748-MIDGLEY


Submitter: Rhiannon Midgley

Community: Port Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Sep 26, 2011

Summary: Get rid of fish farms.

0746-STCYR


Submitter: kristin st. cyr

Community: victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 26, 2011

Summary: Salmon are sacred and must be protected by removing fish farms.

0745-EVANS


Submitter: Jenn Evans

Community: Goldriver

Date Submitted: Sep 26, 2011

Summary: Does the fish farm industry not care about our ecosystems?

0743-PARTON


Submitter: Jaimie Parton

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 25, 2011

Summary: The evidence indicates that wild and open-net farmed salmon cannot co-exist in our coastal waters, and based on both economics and environment wild salmon are the obvious priority.

0741-MCCONNELL


Submitter: Amy McConnell

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Sep 22, 2011

Summary: The Commissioner should recommend funding to Kristi Miller, removing fish farms from migratory routes, a separation from regulating and promoting aquaculture and no more funding to open net pen salmon aquaculture.

0740-WALTERS


Submitter: James Walters

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Sep 19, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon will be far better off and protected from further decline when farmed salmon is contained on land.

0739-PARTON


Submitter: Kathy Parton

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Sep 18, 2011

Summary: DFO should be removed from being responsible for wild salmon and fish farms should removed from the salmon’s migration routes.

0738-RUSSELL


Submitter: Mary Russell

Community: Port Hardy

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2011

Summary: The deflection of the truth and denial of harm seems to be the norm within DFO, and it is not to be trusted with our wild salmon heritage.

0737-WOLD


Submitter: Carolyn Wold

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2011

Summary: If there are going to be fish farms at all they must move to contained tanks on land.

0736-SHIELS


Submitter: Dolores Shiels

Community: Sointula

Date Submitted: Sep 13, 2011

Summary: The government should spend $18,500 on a test that could save the wild salmon.

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0735-FARMER


Submitter: Kenneth Farmer

Community: Dartmouth

Date Submitted: Sep 12, 2011

Summary: Can this inquiry influence aquaculture expansion in Nova Scotia?

0729-MARSHALL


Submitter: Gary Marshall

Community: Malahat

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2011

Summary: Without farmed salmon in the marketplace, wild salmon would be in further decline as fisheries react to market demand and prices.

0728-JONES


Submitter: Susan Jones

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2011

Summary: The salmon’s decline comes from failure on the part of government to protect salmon, apply credible science and enforce laws and regulations. There seems to be political determination that certain projects and licenses will be approved, such as fish farms, the Gateway Deltaport expansion and the South Fraser Perimeter Road, regardless of the available science and knowledge that warns of residual adverse environmental effects. Detailed information from Freedom of Information requests is provided in this submission.

0734-REED


Submitter: Anissa Reed

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from the wild salmon narrows and test farmed salmon for disease. DFO is in conflict on aquaculture.

0730-THAYSEN


Submitter: Max Thaysen

Community: Manson's Ldg.

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2011

Summary: The precautionary principle shows that open net pen fish farms should be banned.

0727-SKIPPER


Submitter: Peter Skipper

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend further research to learn about the possible brain tumours in Fraser sockeye and if salmon farms are to blame, and should recommend better independent inspections of fish farms.

0726-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: When asked about pre-spawning mortality of sockeye in the Shushwap, DFO’s Regional Director of Science wouldn’t say if the fish had been tested for IHNV coming from fish farms. Copies of correspondence with DFO are included.

0731-GIBBS


Submitter: Dirk Gibbs

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2011

Summary: This submission is a copy of a letter to the Premier of BC thanking for releasing the provincial salmon farm disease records. The writer says “Unfortunately, withholding this critical information until now has harmed the people of the province of BC who depend on salmon.”

0721-BRUCE


Submitter: T Bruce

Community: Squamish

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: Closed containment is worth the long-term investment.

0724-MORRISON


Submitter: stuart morrison

Community: kelowna

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: There has been a purposeful distortion in the identity of Alexandra Morton at the hearings where she was addressed as “doctor.”Ms. Morton does not have a doctorate, she has a science degree only.

0723-LAWSON


Submitter: Michelle Lawson

Community: Cumberland

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: Stop fish farming.

0722-JOHNSTONE


Submitter: myna lee johnstone

Community: saltspring island

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should be advised to move to closed containment on land, or else they must be shut down.

0717-MCNALLY


Submitter: Diane McNally

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2011

Summary: DFO management and the salmon feedlot corporations don't own wild salmon.

0715-OLSON


Submitter: Gayle Olson

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2011

Summary: Remove farmed fish from the open ocean.

0714-DUBRULLE


Submitter: Phil Dubrulle

Community: Squamish

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2011

Summary: This submission is a copy of a letter to the Premier of BC thanking for releasing the provincial salmon farm disease records. The writer says “Unfortunately, withholding this critical information until now has harmed the people of the province of BC who depend on salmon.”

0720-HARVEY


Submitter: Robert CH Harvey

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2011

Summary: Put an end to open net fish farming in BC.

0719-BUTLER


Submitter: amber butler

Community: Squamish

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2011

Summary: This submission is a copy of a letter to the Premier of BC thanking for releasing the provincial salmon farm disease records. The writer says “Unfortunately, withholding this critical information until now has harmed the people of the province of BC who depend on salmon.”

0713-SWANTON


Submitter: Richard Swanton

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Sep 6, 2011

Summary: Part of the problem with salmon populations is the various jurisdictions involved in the harvesting. Why are Americans allowed to catch Fraser River fish in such an inequitable fashion, and who is monitoring these trans-border fisheries?

0712-MCSORLEY


Submitter: Mike McSorley

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 5, 2011

Summary: The commission cannot dismiss the evidence pointing at fish farms for the decrease in wild stocks.

0709-SPRAGUE


Submitter: John B. Sprague

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Sep 3, 2011

Summary: The commission should review the research of Dr. Elizabeth Boulding at the University of Guelph, who found that the genetics were quite different from sea-lice of wild and farmed salmon.

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0711-ANDERSON


Submitter: Elizabeth Anderson

Community: Cortes Bay

Date Submitted: Sep 3, 2011

Summary: If salmon farming is to continue it must be a land based operation with no outlet to natural water courses.

0708-GJERDALEN


Submitter: greig gjerdalen

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 2, 2011

Summary: Biodiversity of our wild salmon is critical to the long-term health of our home.

0707-ROBSON


Submitter: brian robson

Community: west vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 2, 2011

Summary: I suggest that some of the scientists and their lawyers are obviously biased against fish farms.

0705-HANNAY


Submitter: Bob Hannay

Community: Errington

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Unless this inquiry has the courage to make all this right, it appears most likely BC's wild salmon will go the way of the cod fish of eastern Canada.

0701-BARNUM


Submitter: Jim Barnum

Community: N. Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Coalition lawyers should be given more time to cross-examine witnesses about fish farming effects on wild salmon.

0704-HOWARD


Submitter: Jeff Howard

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: We know far too little about our oceans' ecosystems and their fragile balance to blindly introduce foreign species for profit.

0703-DUFAULT


Submitter: Denise Dufault

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Make the provincial government stop inserting culverts into salmon-bearing streams to build the South Fraser Perimeter Road.

0702-PETITCLERCEVANS


Submitter: Yolaine Petitclerc-Evans

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Governments are meant to protect people and assets, but who is in charge here?

0700-MACKENZIE


Submitter: Ian MacKenzie

Community: Kamloops

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: All anecdotal and database evidence must be released to the public who own the fish.

0699-JACOBSON


Submitter: Russ Jacobson

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Get rid of fish farms in BC waters.

0698-SIMMINS


Submitter: Marjorie Simmins

Community: Halifax

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2011

Summary: Canada should be a leader in saving a wild salmon fishery from the effects of fish farms.

0697-PERRY


Submitter: doug perry

Community: Bby

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: The need to change from open net fish farms to closed containment pens has been proven.

0696-GOLDSTEIN


Submitter: David Goldstein

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: Do not allow open ocean fish farming to destroy our wild salmon.

0694-BAILEY


Submitter: Susan Bailey

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: Allow time for all questions at the inquiry to be fully asked and answered.

0693-BROWN


Submitter: neil brown

Community: whistler

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should be permitted only in closed containment farms on land.

0692-GILCHRIST


Submitter: LORNE GILCHRIST

Community: NANOOSE BAY

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: This submission is a copy of a letter sent to the Premier of BC demanding that salmon farms be moved to land operations.

0691-REID


Submitter: Dennis Reid

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: Everyone connected with the commission’s proceedings should transparently declare any connections they may have with the fish farms.

0690-BARTLETT


Submitter: Jim Bartlett

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: If we discovered disease in humans like the one Dr. Miller found in salmon, every available lab would be working on the cause and cure. This issue is urgent.

0689-WALTERS


Submitter: Patricia Walters

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2011

Summary: The only safe place for fish farms is closed containment on land.

0670-DAVEY


Submitter: Ted Davey

Community: Burnaby BC

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: All information from this commission should be made public.

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0669-TIDSWELL


Submitter: brad tIdswell

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Government should release evidence that proves fish farms are breeding disease.

0688-LARSON


Submitter: David Larson

Community: Hazelton

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: DFO management should be investigated for competence and integrity.

0687-WOOLDRIDGE


Submitter: david wooldridge

Community: maple ridge

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon are sacred.

0686-MARR


Submitter: Andrew Marr

Community: Vernon

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from the Fraser sockeye migration route.

0685-MATTES


Submitter: jack mattes

Community: gabriola

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Get farmed salmon out of the ocean.

0684-MCGUINNESS


Submitter: Jen McGuinness

Community: Brackendale

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from the Fraser sockeye migration route.

0683-CRESSMAN


Submitter: d cressman

Community: Mayne

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Listen closely to the evidence on disease and fish farms.

0682-SWANSTON


Submitter: Richard Swanston

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: The Fisheries Act should have more controls over recreational activities that destroy riparian habitat.

0681-BEXSON


Submitter: susan bexson

Community: sooke

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Sample farmed salmon for DFO officers.

0680-SASS


Submitter: Donald Sass

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Closed containment fish farming has proven to be viable so remove open net pens from Canadian waters.

0629-HOWELL


Submitter: Bill Howell

Community: Ottawa

Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2011

Summary: Consult with experts on climate change such as Dr. Tim Patterson and treat any modelling based on General Circulation Models with a grain of salt.

0656-BOUCHARD


Submitter: Teresa Bouchard

Community: Whistler

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: There should be stricter environmental regulations for fish farms so they are not harming the ocean and all the living creatures in it.

0677-MERCER


Submitter: Darlene Mercer

Community: Pitt Meadows

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Scientific anecdotal evidence and common sense show that fish farming should only be allowed in contained facilities.

0676-RUDDEN


Submitter: Chris Rudden

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms cannot be placed on migration routes.

0675-MOCK


Submitter: Laurice Mock

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are causing cancers in wild fish and must be removed from the oceans.

0674-HOLLINGSWORTH


Submitter: Adele Hollingsworth

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Farmed salmon are killing our wild salmon.

0673-MCKEACHIE


Submitter: Shelley McKeachie

Community: Denman Island

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are introducing disease and toxins into our waters and likely causing the decline of our wild salmon populations.

0672-COTTER


Submitter: Gail Cotter

Community: West Van

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Put farmed fish in containment on land or shut them down.

0671-SHIRA


Submitter: Ahava Shira

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: It is time for the BC government to come clean and put an end to sea-based salmon farms.

0667-MUCKLE


Submitter: Robert Muckle

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Wild salmon must not be forced to migrate past fish farms any longer as they are contracting viruses in the process.

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0666-MACLEOD


Submitter: Bruce MacLeod

Community: Horsefly

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Enhance existing wild stocks to their previous abundance and eliminate the need for farmed fish.

0665-ROBSON


Submitter: Sandra Robson

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Open pen fish farming is detrimental. Fish farming has huge potential but only on land within contained and separate systems.

0664-BOLEEN


Submitter: Michelle Boleen

Community: Whitehorse

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: The rights of fish farm owners should not be put before the rights of all Canadians to have healthy wild salmon stocks.

0658-BARBER


Submitter: Hal Barber

Community: Bowen Island

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from the ocean.

0655-BUCHOLTZ


Submitter: stuart bucholtz

Community: langley

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Please rise above politics and stop fish farms from locating in the migratory pathways of our oceans.

0654-COLBERG


Submitter: Edward Colberg

Community: Calgary

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: We cannot afford to risk wild salmon in favour of farmed.

0653-DUNHAM


Submitter: Alan Dunham

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Remove salmon farms from migration paths of wild salmon.

0652-HEPPER


Submitter: Katherine Hepper

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farms need to be removed from our oceans to protect wild salmon.

0651-DRUMM


Submitter: D. Drumm

Community: Binbrook

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: I applaud the decision to make public the scientific data that suggests a link between wild salmon mortality and disease from farmed fish.

0679-MCCONNELL


Submitter: Joan McConnell

Community: Saltspring Island

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Err on the side of caution. Fish farms should await further research to prove they do no harm.

0649-WESTWOOD


Submitter: Nancy Westwood

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Fish farms, like any other industrial farm, need to contain and treat effluent. Those who covered up evidence of a virus need to be reprimanded in serious ways.

0678-GUSTAVESON


Submitter: Albert A. Gustaveson

Community: Marcell

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Factory salmon farms are killing BC’s native salmon.

0646-ARBESS


Submitter: Saul Arbess

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: The commission should recommend that the BC government remove all salmon farms from sockeye migration routes.

0645-PSSL_601222


Submitter: Pacific Smoked Salmon ltd

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Farmed Atlantic salmon must be taken out of the Pacific Ocean.

0642-DENNING


Submitter: lorna denning

Community: victoria,b.c.

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farms from BC coastal waters.

0663-TERLINGENMD


Submitter: Hans Terlingen, MD

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: There is cause for charges of conspiracy in the organization that is supposed to protect all fish.

0661-INMAN


Submitter: Charlotte Inman

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: All fish farms must be removed from our coastal waters.

0660-DOVEY


Submitter: Shannon Dovey

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Get fish farms out of our oceans now.

0659-KOENDERS


Submitter: lyle koenders

Community: alert bay

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Save wild salmon from fish farm diseases and pollution.

0657-KETCHEN


Submitter: Marianne Ketchen

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Stop knowingly killing the ocean floor.

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0650-ULMER


Submitter: Rick Ulmer

Community: Salmon Arm

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: The small benefits of the fish farm industry to BC cannot be compared to the magnitude of the benefits of Fraser River sockeye.

0647-GARNETT


Submitter: Stephen Garnett

Community: Cowichan Bay

Date Submitted: Aug 30, 2011

Summary: Close the fish farms before it is too late.

0644-ETHIER


Submitter: Mark Ethier

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Fish farms have caused the “disappearance” of wild salmon and should not be allowed to continue to operate in open water.

0643-RILEY


Submitter: Frances Riley

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: The commission should consider all the biological evidence from the fish farm disease database.

0641-BOREK


Submitter: Elizabeth Borek

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are the source of disease killing wild salmon and must be removed at no cost to BC taxpayers.

0640-MAGRILL


Submitter: Barry Magrill

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Get rid of farmed salmon.

0639-BRADLEY


Submitter: NEVILLE BRADLEY

Community: COQUITLAM

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Don’t eat farmed salmon.

0638-WADLEY


Submitter: Gordon Wadley

Community: Smithers

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: The Commissioner must sanction those responsible for harming wild salmon stocks.

0637-HILL


Submitter: Jonathan Hill

Community: Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Aquaculture businesses must demonstrate environmental neutrality with respect to their operations and should fund testing.

0636-DEGAGNE


Submitter: Marc DeGagne

Community: Winnipeg

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: People must be willing to pay a higher price for responsibly raised closed containment farmed salmon.

0635-SCHRODER


Submitter: Jill Schroder

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Salmon farm disease records should be available to the public.

0634-UNDERWOOD


Submitter: Colleen Underwood

Community: Cowichan Bay

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Release the facts and help us to save wild salmon.

0633-MCCONNELL


Submitter: Amy McConnell

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: We have a right to see the fish farm disease records.

0632-CRAMPTON


Submitter: Erin Crampton

Community: Winnipeg

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: What is this inquiry doing for our Canadian waters and fish stocks?

0631-SASCS_542960


Submitter: Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2011

Summary: Given the potential global impacts, it is vitally important that any and all disease and treatment data associated with open salmon feedlots be made available to the public.

0630-FINCH


Submitter: laura finch

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2011

Summary: Make public the disease records from the Marine Harvest fish farm company.

0626-DRIEDGER


Submitter: Rick Driedger

Community: Smithers

Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2011

Summary: If a majority of the population is not in favour of fish feed lots then the government must excise them out of our waters immediately.

0627-GAGNE


Submitter: Cherizar Gagne

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2011

Summary: To keep our province pristine, Dr. Miller must be allowed to test farmed salmon before the commission comes to any conclusions.

0622-SCHULTZ


Submitter: ron schultz

Community: Cityprince george

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: Test one fish from each fish farm immediately.

0621-ARNTZEN


Submitter: Holly Arntzen

Community: Crofton

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: Dr. Kristi Miller must be allowed to test Atlantic salmon from fish farms.

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0620-BAKER


Submitter: Alexis Baker

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: It is not acceptable for the hearings to end before Atlantic farmed fish in BC is tested.

0619-REED


Submitter: Anissa Reed

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: The inquiry cannot come to a proper conclusion until Kristi Miller is allowed to test farmed Atlantic salmon.

0625-STEWART


Submitter: Charles Stewart

Community: Penticton

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: Funding should be found for Dr. Kristi Miller to carry out her research.

0624-STEWART


Submitter: Charles Stewart

Community: Penticton

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: Not only is salmon farming a root cause of the degradation of wild stocks, so is our pollution of the rivers and oceans.

0623-STOBBART


Submitter: Derek Stobbart

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2011

Summary: DFO should act on the risk from fish farms to protect the wild fish stocks and the health of the oceans.

0618-SCHUMACHER


Submitter: garret schumacher

Community: squamish

Date Submitted: Aug 24, 2011

Summary: The most sustainable way for recovery of the sockeye would be to only allow personal harvest and close commercial harvest until the salmon stocks have recovered.

0614-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2011

Summary: What is the relationship between Management Adjustment for Fraser sockeye and Management Adjustment applied to other salmon species co-migrating within the same environmental conditions?

0616-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2011

Summary: Overescapement will ensure that even strong stocks will become weak stocks.

0613-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 20, 2011

Summary: DFO needs information on stock enumeration, stream surveys and more for critical data analysis.

0612-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2011

Summary: Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge should really be called “wisdom” and evaluated based on the wisdom of certain choices.

0610-SCHRODER


Submitter: Jill Schroder

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2011

Summary: Open net pen salmon farms must be required to transition to closed containment immediately.

0609-REID


Submitter: Dennis Reid

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2011

Summary: Releasing disease data from fish farms will not financially affect the companies as they claim, as their share prices are already dropping.

0611-KINCH


Submitter: Ron Kinch

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2011

Summary: National media should cover the commission’s hearings.

0608-TRAYNOR


Submitter: Jim Traynor

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Aug 16, 2011

Summary: The Province should create a Wild Salmon Watershed Reserve with an on-going commission to regulate development there that affects wild fish.

0607-ESTEBAN


Submitter: Nory Esteban

Community: Invermere

Date Submitted: Aug 15, 2011

Summary: It's time to stop open net cage fish farming.

0606-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 14, 2011

Summary: What does DFO mean by the term “priority access” for sport fisheries?

0605-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 13, 2011

Summary: There should be a clear distinct management policy for sport fisherman, the commercial sport industry and the commercial net fleet.

0604-PROBERT


Submitter: F Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 11, 2011

Summary: Experimental fisheries proposals are allocated 5 per cent of coastwide sockeye total allowable catch regardless of a given commercial allowable catch.

0603-PROBERT


Submitter: F. Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Aug 11, 2011

Summary: Why are sports fishermen allocated sockeye based on total allowable catch and not commercial allowable catch?

0602-BLACKIE


Submitter: Les Blackie

Community: White Rock

Date Submitted: Aug 7, 2011

Summary: DFO must remember that they are working for the preservation of wild salmon.

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0599-HARTMAN


Submitter: Gordon Hartman

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Aug 4, 2011

Summary: There should not be reluctance by government to having scientific research such as the paper by Dr. Miller, discussed with the public. We need a structure that permits thoughtful public response and feed-back to such scientific findings.

0598-SKROBOT


Submitter: barry skrobot

Community: centerville

Date Submitted: Aug 3, 2011

Summary: Remove open net salmon farms near migration paths of wild salmon.

0597-JANG


Submitter: Richard Jang

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Aug 2, 2011

Summary: Protect wild salmon from open pen fish farms.

0596-BLAIR


Submitter: Robert Blair

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Aug 2, 2011

Summary: Act now to remove the threats from open pen salmon farms.

0595-VOTH


Submitter: Brian Voth

Community: Lund

Date Submitted: Aug 2, 2011

Summary: Remove open pen salmon farms.

0594-STAFFORD


Submitter: gwenda stafford

Community: Nelson

Date Submitted: Aug 2, 2011

Summary: The government must listen to their experts and act on their research.

0590-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2011

Summary: There should be separate management policies for sport fishermen and commercial net fisheries.

0593-WILCOX


Submitter: James Wilcox

Community: Olympia

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2011

Summary: The Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society commends the Cohen Commission for its work and looks forward to reviewing its findings regarding farmed Atlantic
salmon practices and their impacts on Fraser sockeye and those who rely on them.

0592-HENDERSON


Submitter: Tom Henderson

Community: Mill Bay

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2011

Summary: Listen to Alexandra Morton regarding wild salmon.

0591-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2011

Summary: Past management of the coastal net fleet should be examined.

0587-PEARSON


Submitter: Margaret Pearson

Community: Sechelt

Date Submitted: Jul 28, 2011

Summary: Scientists working for the government should be heard.

0586-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Jul 28, 2011

Summary: Email correspondence from Dr. Laura Richards in November 2010 discusses Sockeye sampled from Nadina River that tested positive for infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV).

0585-BAXTER


Submitter: David Baxter

Community: Chase

Date Submitted: Jul 28, 2011

Summary: Best of luck to the commission in is efforts to bring the enquiry to its conclusion.

0584-HILLIS


Submitter: Peter Hillis

Community: Rossland

Date Submitted: Jul 27, 2011

Summary: Make information regarding fish farms public and close down open net pen leases.

0583-CAMERON


Submitter: Michael Cameron

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jul 27, 2011

Summary: Fish farms are having a significant impact on salmon stocks.

0581-CFOUW_802395


Submitter: Canadian Federation of University Women

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jul 25, 2011

Summary: The Canadian Federation of University Women urge the Government of Canada and the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans to enforce the Fisheries Act to eliminate pollution of fish and their habitat in Canada’s coastal and inland waters.

0578-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Jul 24, 2011

Summary: Highest priority management issues regarding salmon catch allocation.

0577-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Jul 22, 2011

Summary: Research exists on the state of the ocean that should not be duplicated. If the ocean collapses then the planet will collapse.

0576-PERRINBGSMPP


Submitter: Lynn Perrin BGS MPP

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Jul 19, 2011

Summary: The JAMES sewage treatment plant dumps effluent into the Fraser River just west of the Mission Bridge, which may play a role in the reduction of salmon in the Fraser River.

0575-GOSLING


Submitter: Neville Gosling

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Jul 19, 2011

Summary: More integrity is needed in government and fish farm operators, and fish farms should be removed from protected waters.

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0574-CRAIK


Submitter: Paul Craik

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jul 17, 2011

Summary: Mounting evidence points to open net fish farms as the cause for the decline of wild salmon.

0572-MCNAMEE


Submitter: Sandy McNamee

Community: White Rock

Date Submitted: Jul 16, 2011

Summary: Stop net cage salmon farming in the ocean.

0571-NEUMANN


Submitter: Kira Neumann

Community: Black Creek

Date Submitted: Jul 14, 2011

Summary: Scientific evidence shows how dangerous open net salmon farming and importing salmon eggs are to the well-being of wild salmon stocks.

0570-PERSSON


Submitter: R G Persson

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jul 14, 2011

Summary: Scientific evidence shows how dangerous open net salmon farming and importing salmon eggs are to the well-being of wild salmon stocks.

0569-PLANT


Submitter: Judith Plant

Community: Gabriola Is

Date Submitted: Jul 14, 2011

Summary: No fish farms in Clayoquot Sound.

0568-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Jul 14, 2011

Summary: Review the effect of DFO management decisions on the commercial salmon fleet and coastal communities.

0567-YAMANAKA


Submitter: Kenny Yamanaka

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Jul 13, 2011

Summary: Salmon farms benefit only the company owners.

0566-STEPHEN


Submitter: Heather Stephen

Community: Gillies Bay

Date Submitted: Jul 13, 2011

Summary: Open pen fish farms are not a good idea.

0565-LARSON


Submitter: David Larson

Community: Hazelton

Date Submitted: Jul 11, 2011

Summary: The commission should make public information about infectious diseases and fish farm operations.

0564-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Jul 10, 2011

Summary: Drastic action is needed within a decade to prevent irreversible changes to marine ecosystems.

0589-CHORONZEYGOINGFISHIN


Submitter: darryl choronzey (Going Fis

Community: owen sound, ontario

Date Submitted: Jul 29, 2011

Summary: Remove fish farming pens from saltwater and replace the supervisors presently in charge of the situation.

0563-HOLLIDAY


Submitter: Gordon Holliday

Community: Port Sorell,

Date Submitted: Jul 3, 2011

Summary: To eliminate their interference with native salmon species, fish farms in natural waterways should be closed down.

0560-LEDBETTER


Submitter: Max Ledbetter

Community: Kitchener

Date Submitted: Jun 19, 2011

Summary: Effective fisheries management is hampered by incomplete data, computational errors, unacknowledged mistakes, speculation, ambition, prejudice, politics, favouritism, jargon, fictitious mathematical models, and downright lies.

0553-HEALEY


Submitter: Michael Healey

Community: Peachland

Date Submitted: Jun 7, 2011

Summary: The attached paper, recently published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, deals with the cumulative impacts of climate change on salmon using Fraser sockeye as a model. Although the findings of this paper refer to effects that will occur over the next several decades, the results may be relevant to any forward looking projections by the commission.

0546-CLYNE


Submitter: Dave Clyne

Community: Cultus Lake

Date Submitted: May 29, 2011

Summary: Since the late 1990s, Cultus Lake residents have observed Cultus sockeye returning earlier than they once did. Residents have expressed concern that in mid-August, when Cultus sockeye are now arriving, the Sweltzer Creek migratory corridor may be too warm.

0544-COOLEY


Submitter: anneliese cooley

Community: ladysmith

Date Submitted: May 27, 2011

Summary: There should be no farmed salmon.

0545-MATHESON


Submitter: Rod Matheson

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: May 27, 2011

Summary: If salmon farming is permitted to continue in coastal waters it will have devastating effects on wild salmon and their habitat. Evidence shows that salmon farms pollute the sea and attract sea lice and marine predators, and that escaped farmed salmon destroy the genetic integrity of wild salmon. The Commissioner must not obscure the truth of salmon farming with misleading information provided by vested corporate interests.

0541-MCKINLAY


Submitter: Brian McKinlay

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: May 25, 2011

Summary: Science-based evidence about the harm caused by open net cage salmon farms must be taken seriously by the commission. The salmon farming industry must be held accountable for its actions.

0540-KERR


Submitter: Hugh Kerr

Community: Garibaldi Highlands

Date Submitted: May 25, 2011

Summary: Fish farms should be required to publicly divulge information about the chemicals they use to treat sea lice. The lack of such information hampers the study of the relationship between fish farms and returning salmon.

0539-SILVERMAN


Submitter: Deborah Silverman

Community: Friday Harbor

Date Submitted: May 24, 2011

Summary: There should be no salmon farms in Clayoquot Sound.

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0535-BUECKER


Submitter: Mark Buecker

Community: Pitt Meadows

Date Submitted: May 18, 2011

Summary: The attached report concludes that turbidity spikes from large forest fire seasons and storms are the most likely cause of the collapse of Fraser sockeye. Other species of salmon are less affected because they spawn closer to the coast, and have less turbidity to travel through. Sockeye may also be spawning sooner in order to avoid late-summer forest fires.

0534-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove

Date Submitted: May 11, 2011

Summary: The attached submission calls on DFO to respond to the issues addressed in the 1997 public meetings held by Samuel Toy, Independent Advisor to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on Intersectoral Allocation of Pacific Salmon. DFO should compare the management policies resulting from Mr. Toy's report to current policies.

0530-CECILL


Submitter: b cecill

Community: gibsons

Date Submitted: May 2, 2011

Summary: It is dismaying that the commission has banned the publication of disease-related information. The commission is supposed to be public, and disease information ought to be immediately reported to the appropriate government agencies.

0529-HEPLER


Submitter: Bill Hepler

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: May 1, 2011

Summary: The restrictions placed on Alexandra Morton with respect to sharing disease information with the public plays in to the suspicion that DFO and the BC Ministry of Agriculture are tools of the salmon farming industry. Farmed salmon diseases constitute a significant risk to wild stocks, and it is important that information about outbreaks be made public.

0527-JUDD


Submitter: priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Apr 28, 2011

Summary: The following submission requests that Tolko Industries postpone its planned use of pesticides near Lumby until the commission has determined the effects of pesticides on Fraser sockeye. The submission suggests that pesticides contribute to the loss of salmon and salmon habitat, and recommends alternative methods, such as manual removal, to control vegetation growth on forestry blocks.

0521-SCHELLENBERG


Submitter: Donna Schellenberg

Community: Penticton,

Date Submitted: Apr 20, 2011

Summary: Please look after our environment. Wild salmon are crucial to the circle of life.

0511-PROBERT


Submitter: BRUCE PROBERT

Community: Aldergrove

Date Submitted: Apr 12, 2011

Summary: The following submission offers a critique of DFO's catch allocation system.

0510-PROBERT


Submitter: BRUCE PROBERT

Community: aldergrove

Date Submitted: Apr 12, 2011

Summary: DFO has promoted the misconception that overfishing is the cause of the decline of salmon stocks in order to deflect criticism from its inept management of the fishery.

0507-PROBERT


Submitter: BRUCE PROBERT

Community: Aldergrove

Date Submitted: Apr 10, 2011

Summary: The commission should clarify the definitions of various phrases (listed in the submission) which have been used during the hearings.

0506-PROBERT


Submitter: BRUCE PROBERT

Community: Aldergrove

Date Submitted: Apr 10, 2011

Summary: The commission must try to understand the experiences of commercial fishers, whose access to income, retirement options and asset values are totally controlled by DFO, and who are treated as racist criminals when they attempt to stage protest fisheries. The commission must determine an appropriate definition of 'socio-economic'.

0502-HARRIS


Submitter: Tammy Harris

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Apr 9, 2011

Summary: The commission should investigate whether hatchery salmon are spreading disease to wild Fraser sockeye. In particular, the commission should consider the Technical Report being prepared by Dr. Craig Stephen at the Centre for Coastal Health.

0505-BEVILACQUA


Submitter: Brady Bevilacqua

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Apr 9, 2011

Summary: The commission should investigate whether increased crab fishing has caused the decline of Fraser sockeye. Crab larvae are vital to the ecosystem and food chain.

0496-SWOA_689054


Submitter: Shuswap Waterfront Owners Association

Community: Scotch Creek

Date Submitted: Apr 6, 2011

Summary: The Shuswap Waterfront Owners Association (SWOA) represents 260 waterfront properties on Shuswap Lake. It believes that a firm grounding in science is imperative to understanding the state of the fishery and controlling habitat destruction. The documents attached to this submission serve, in the opinion of SWOA, as a counterpoint to the vested interests of many of the submissions received by the commission to date. The documents include a report on the use of Shuswap Lake foreshore by juvenile salmonids, a report of a DFO workshop related to fish habitat, and notes from a presentation on salmon habitat in Shuswap Lake.

0494-HART


Submitter: Rosemary Hart

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 5, 2011

Summary: Salmon farming must be done on land-based farms in order to protect our remaining natural ecosystem.

0495-SHAFER


Submitter: Howard Shafer

Community: Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Apr 5, 2011

Summary: If more hatcheries were built there would be more wild salmon. To fund additional hatcheries, commercial fishing boats and recreational fishers should pay a 'hatchery tax.' Fishermen would recoup these payments from the larger catches resulting from the hatcheries.

0479-JACOBS


Submitter: Ken M. Jacobs

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Mar 19, 2011

Summary: The commission should obtain disease information for wild salmonid hatcheries. Each year, over six billion salmon are released by hatcheries. These fish may contain diseases that affect wild salmon runs.

0480-FEARN


Submitter: Robert Fearn

Community: Restone

Date Submitted: Mar 19, 2011

Summary: Humans have slowly decimated the natural resources on British Columbia's south coast. Overfishing, logging, and government inaction have contributed to the decline of salmon and salmon habitat. DFO is responsible for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Fraser sockeye fishery, and it must demonstrate wisdom in protecting this natural resource.

0478-MORRY


Submitter: Mike Morry

Community: Brentwood Bay

Date Submitted: Mar 17, 2011

Summary: The commission should consider shutting down the commercial net fishery, which would immediately benefit all wild salmon. Like other agricultural products, all fish for human consumption should be supplied by fish farms, and wild fish should be left to the sport fishery.

0474-KEENAN


Submitter: Bernadette Keenan

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Mar 15, 2011

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Bernadette Keenan.)

The South Fraser Perimeter Road Project threatens to destroy sensitive salmon habitat, and will create a nightmare for ensuring the sustainability of Fraser sockeye. If the project goes ahead, it will cause creeks to be paved over, trees to be cut down, and toxic runoff to spill into the Fraser River. A problem with a Manson Canal holding pond during the 2008 spawning season is an example of how ongoing preparations for the project are already damaging salmon habitat. No cumulative environmental assessment of the project's impacts were conducted, and the commission should recommend that the project be cancelled and its funding be diverted to other transportation solutions, such as rail and short sea shipping.

0450-TASKER


Submitter: James Tasker

Community: Sudbury

Date Submitted: Feb 18, 2011

Summary: It is very discouraging to watch the vitality of the BC salmon fishery wane under DFO oversight. A growing body of evidence indicates a correlation between in-ocean aquaculture and disease outbreaks in wild ocean fish. The commission should protect BC waters from disease, chemical contamination and environmental degradation, and it should recommend the establishment of a data-driven, transparent and scientific process for understanding how to protect salmon stocks while supporting a sustainable wild fishery.

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0444-PFRCC_251456


Submitter: Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Feb 14, 2011

Summary: The attached letter contains annotated summaries of reports by the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council on issues such as salmon in the Strait of Georgia, marine survival, climate change, ecosystem-based management, risks to Fraser sockeye, financial resources for conservation, and stock assessment. It describes the mandate of the Council and its pledge to provide impartial information to the public on the commission's final report, and expresses the hope of Council members that the commission will review and endorse its January 2010 advisory report calling for the transition to ecosystem-based management.

0440-MCCANDLESS


Submitter: Robert G. McCandless

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Feb 10, 2011

Summary: The attached letter recommends that the commission examine DFO's policies related to the issuing of finfish aquaculture licenses under the new Pacific Aquaculture Regulations. The letter argues that the regulations appear to permit site-specific exemptions to section 36 (3) of the Fisheries Act, thereby departing from DFO's decades-old practice of regulating habitat alteration by industry. The letter also suggests that the new regulations may offer little support in protecting Fraser sockeye.

0441-MRPMEC_990690


Submitter: Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Environmental Council

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Feb 10, 2011

Summary: The attached letter from the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Environmental Council to the Honourable Gail Shea describes DFO's response to reports of dead fish in the North Alouette River. The letter calls for improvements to DFO's investigation and staff training methods, as well as for the revision of a memorandum of understanding between DFO and Environment Canada regarding their shared duty to protect rivers, fish and fish habitat.

0434-FULTON


Submitter: Kim Fulton

Community: Armstrong

Date Submitted: Feb 5, 2011

Summary: I am very disappointed that the commission has been given more time to complete its mandate. The extension is unreasonably long and expensive. Rather than spending money on legal proceedings, the commission should take immediate steps to implement the precautionary principle and address viral diseases from open net fish farms.

0425-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Jan 23, 2011

Summary: The Veta la Palma fish farm in Spain is a perfect business model for a sustainable planet and should be emulated in BC, particularly in wetland areas such as the Shuswap River. The commission should try to convince DFO to help land owners develop these kinds of fish farms, and to prohibit BC's exiting fish farm monocultures.

0423-NICKERSON


Submitter: Michelle Nickerson

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Jan 23, 2011

Summary: It is concerning that the disruption of redds by subsequent waves of spawning sockeye is ignored when calculating the effective spawner numbers used in various prediction models, including the Fraser River Sockeye Spawning Escapement Initiative. Omitting redd disruption could lead the models to over-predict the size of future runs.

0420-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Jan 21, 2011

Summary: The commission should decide whether it is relevant to its mandate to address issues related to the ownership of commercial fishing vessels.

0417-STRACHAN


Submitter: Daniel Strachan

Community: röschenz

Date Submitted: Jan 18, 2011

Summary: The loss of BC's wild salmon would be a major tragedy for the province, Canada and the world. The commission should do the right thing and recommend that fish feedlots be shut down.

0413-HOLMES


Submitter: Richard Holmes

Community: Likely

Date Submitted: Jan 12, 2011

Summary: The commission should consider advising Canada to implement a levy for all adult sockeye caught in the fisheries. The funds could be utilized for research, monitoring, restoration, enhancement, and education, which would complement the limited work presently undertaken in the freshwater environment.

0412-COWAN


Submitter: Al Cowan

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Jan 11, 2011

Summary: DFO protects the aquaculture industry at the expense of wild Pacific salmon, which are a vital link in the ecology of the West Coast and must be protected. Fish farms should be put on land and made to adhere to all environmental regulations.

0411-OVERSTALL


Submitter: Richard Overstall

Community: Smithers

Date Submitted: Jan 11, 2011

Summary: This submission focuses on the respective roles of values-based and science-based information in the management of a natural resource such as the Fraser River sockeye stocks. It does so by examining the setting of conservation benchmarks under Canada's Wild Salmon Policy, which are intended to inform managers when a particular salmon stock is approaching extirpation or when it may be fished at a sustainable level. The submission concludes that the majority of marine fish stocks are overexploited because short-term political interests nearly always trump sound scientific advice, and it offers a way of deciding among the government's fisheries policies, its scientific advice and its risk management strategies.

0406-HAIGBROWN


Submitter: Alan Haig-Brown

Community: New Westminster

Date Submitted: Jan 6, 2011

Summary: The attached article, from a recent edition of the UK-based Fishing News International, describes the failure of 2010's great sockeye return to provide all the jobs and revenues to fishermen that would be expected from a public resource.

0404-BUECKER


Submitter: Mark Buecker

Community: Pitt Meadows

Date Submitted: Jan 5, 2011

Summary: The decline in salmon stocks in 2007 and 2008 is attributable to the increased temperature, dryness, erosion and turbidity resulting from the 2003 and 2004 wildfire seasons, some of the worst on record. Similarly, the very large salmon collapse in 1962 was caused by the 1958 fire season, the largest in BC's history. Evidence of the relationship between fire seasons and salmon declines is offered in the attached documents. Further research in the area of erosion and forest fires is necessary to protect aquatic ecosystems and, ultimately, salmon.

0398-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Dec 26, 2010

Summary: An article from the Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation entitled "The Use of Saltings on the BC Coast" may assist the commission to better understand impacts on Fraser sockeye habitat. The article states that saltings, an old term for land which is regularly flooded by salty water, should be recognized for their ecological importance and be treated as a valuable natural resource.

0393-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Dec 21, 2010

Summary: The presence of 58 aquaculture sites in Rockfish Conservation Areas is an example of how DFO's commitment to aquaculture has been prioritized over the protection of a species at risk. Aquaculture sites also reduce small vessel operators' access to anchorages and safe havens, which represents a failure by Transport Canada to keep man-made debris out of public waterways and protect mariners' rights of navigation. The adoption of closed containment technology would not resolve this issue, as aquaculture sites would continue to obstruct public waterways. The solution is to replace water tenures with land tenures.

0383-PROBERT


Submitter: Bruce Probert

Community: Aldergrove,

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2010

Summary: In its investigation of DFO's management of the commercial fishery, the commission should consider several specific questions pertaining to the Sockeye Allocation Policy, the use of sockeye equivalents and stakeholder consultation processes. The commission should recommend that commercial fishermen be paid not to fish in years of low abundance, which would provide relief while maintaining the infrastructure to harvest strong returns.

0382-PRENTICE


Submitter: john prentice

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2010

Summary: Removing fish farms from the ocean will eliminate a potential cause of the decline of wild sockeye, narrowing the focus to other variables, such as pollution in the Fraser River. Removing fish farms will also restore balance to the marine environment.

0381-DEVEREAUX


Submitter: fiona devereaux

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 14, 2010

Summary: The lack of salmon has a devastating nutritional, social and spiritual effect on First Nations communities on Vancouver Island. Fish are connected to First Nations culture, and their loss jeopardizes the health and wellbeing of First Nations communities.

0378-OSBORNE


Submitter: Chelsey Osborne

Community: Port Alberni

Date Submitted: Dec 1, 2010

Summary: Non-governmental scientific research proves that fish farms on the migratory routes of wild salmon play a role in the dramatic decrease of salmon returns. The practice of fish farming, which spreads diseases to wild salmon, must be moved to land or stopped completely.

0377-ANDERSON


Submitter: David Anderson

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Dec 1, 2010

Summary: The issue of artificial on-land treatment of Victoria's sewage has no significant relevance to the Fraser sockeye. The net effect of Victoria's sewage outfalls, when all factors are taken into account, is that it has little impact on Pacific salmon and what there is can be expected to be positive. Proceeding with the decision to implement artificial on-land sewage treatment will waste money that could be better spent on science work on salmon and oceans. Should the commission decide to consider this subject as part of their deliberations, it should seek input from the people who are the actual experts in this field.

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0375-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Nov 28, 2010

Summary: Sewage in Lumby is seeping into the Bessette Creek where wild sockeye, chinook, and endangered coho spawn. The commission should consider the recent legal action against fish farmers in Puget Sound, in which the Washington State Assistant Attorney General showed that technology capable of processing salmon fecal matter exists. This technology, particularly Dr. Ron Lavigne's vegetated sand bed system, should be considered for B.C.

0374-GUDMUNDSON


Submitter: Bharbara Gudmundson

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 27, 2010

Summary: The attached documents, including media articles, academic reports, photos and correspondence with the Ministry of Environment, detail how garbage leachate is systematically spread on the streets of North American communities by compactor garbage trucks. The leachate drains into creeks, rivers, lakes and oceans, poisoning both humans and fish.

0366-CEPG_513443


Submitter: C.R. Estuary Protection Group

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Nov 25, 2010

Summary: Attached to the submission is a DFO memo about a virus that may cause lesions in sockeye salmon, as well as a news article about a disease recently identified in Norwegian farmed salmon also linked to lesions. The commission must address why DFO kept information about this disease secret. It must also determine whether Atlantic salmon in B.C. fish farms have been tested for the disease, and it should recommend that disease and sea lice information on B.C. fish farms be made public.

0361-HARLSON


Submitter: Ted Harlson

Community: Brampton

Date Submitted: Nov 22, 2010

Summary: The need to act to restore salmon is understandable. Humanity's record has generally been to improve nature to the benefit of our standards of living. In its deliberations, the commission should consider that the fish farm industry has the potential to provide salmon for future generations. The industry's skills and knowledge should be applied to the construction of more fish farms.

0360-UNDERWOOD


Submitter: Colleen Underwood

Community: Cowichan Bay

Date Submitted: Nov 21, 2010

Summary: Salmon farmers must be held accountable for what they are doing to wild salmon populations. Salmon farms need to be moved completely to closed containment.

0358-HAIGH


Submitter: Nicky Haigh

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Nov 18, 2010

Summary: The effects of harmful algal blooms (HABs) on wild salmon in BC have long been underestimated and need to be addressed. The attached document shows that there is a strong correlation between naturally occurring blooms of the fish-killing alga Heterosigma akashiwo in the southern Strait of Georgia, during the time period when juvenile sockeye pass through this area after exiting the Fraser River, and poor returns of adult sockeye two years later (Rensel, Haigh, and Tynan, 2010. Harmful Algae 10: 98-115. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2010.07.005). The recurring and persistent HABs seen in this area may be responsible for a great deal of the low returns and decline of Fraser River sockeye since 1989, and in particular the disastrous return in 2009.

0331-FRID


Submitter: Alejandro Frid

Community: Bowen Island

Date Submitted: Oct 29, 2010

Summary: The hypothesis that juvenile Fraser sockeye have been impacted by parasites and disease originating from fish farms must be tested. The hypothesis that the 2010 Fraser sockeye cohort experienced rates of disease and parasite exposure that differed from previous years must also be tested. To do so rigorously, disease and stocking information for all fish farms on migratory routes must be disclosed for the entire period of their operation. It is also essential that priorities for the conservation and sustainable use of salmon consider the role that salmon play in subsidizing terrestrial ecosystem with marine nutrients.

0356-HANSON


Submitter: Douglas Hanson

Community: Hornby Island

Date Submitted: Nov 15, 2010

Summary: To ensure rigorous sampling and an accurate set of findings, the commission should include data on all fish farms in its research on the farmed and wild salmon fisheries.

0352-MERCEREAU


Submitter: Robert Mercereau

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: The decline of Fraser River sockeye, which are an icon to the province and the country, is a major problem that needs to be addressed. Among the multiple factors contributing to the decline are open cage fish farms, which cause disease and sea lice outbreaks. It is shocking that the commission is not seeking the full disclosure of data from salmon farms, as this data is paramount to any study on the decline of salmonids. The commission should seek the full disclosure of this data and make it publically-available.

0351-MITCHELL


Submitter: Frank Mitchell

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: There is no sound justification for keeping data on the rates of infection and sea lice on salmon farms secret. The issues are difficult enough without having the facts systematically obscured.

0350-WAGNER


Submitter: Carol Wagner

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: Salmon farming is not natural. The harm it is doing to nature has been proven.

0355-FARINHA


Submitter: sheri farinha

Community: parksville

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: The commission should do everything within its mandate to ensure the public has the information needed to understand the problems arising from farmed fish.

0349-NEWCOMB


Submitter: John Newcomb

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: Don MacDonald, the researcher charged by the commission to investigate the effects of contaminants on Fraser River sockeye, is a co-director of the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation. I am concerned that Mr. MacDonald's involvement in this organization, as well as his previous research, may impair his ability to make impartial conclusions about the impacts of sewage on salmon health. The commission should ensure that any links made between sewage and salmon health are based on sound evidence, and that any conclusions drawn from Mr. MacDonald's study be peer-reviewed before publication and distribution.

0354-PRATT


Submitter: Sheila Pratt

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: It was very disappointing to read that Justice Cohen requested very limited data from only 21 open net-cage salmon farms over a five year period along Fraser River sockeye migration routes. How can an Inquiry be considered valid if it asks for only some of the relevant information?

0353-ASKGAARD


Submitter: Ivan Askgaard

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2010

Summary: DFO should invest in further scientific research to determine the precise effect of sea lice on wild salmon and to identify juvenile sockeye migration routes. It may be that the strength of the 2010 return was a result of their migration, as smolts, through the Juan de Fuca Strait rather than past fish farms. DFO should also apply the precautionary principle to aquaculture as it has to other fisheries. If the effects of fish farms are unknown, they should be contained or moved onto land until information is available.

0348-KEVIS


Submitter: Dora Kevis

Community: Greenwood, BC

Date Submitted: Nov 10, 2010

Summary: Fish farms are deliberately concealing their record on disease from the public record, and governments are colluding with fish farms to permit this practice and to allow the importation of diseased salmon eggs. Net-containment fish farms should be completely removed from wild fish-bearing waters. The logging industry has also done its share of harm. The new draft aquaculture regulations are concerning due to their ambiguity and because they aim to grant fish farm companies immunity from the laws that safeguard the wild.

0346-FLIGHT


Submitter: Jim Flight

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Nov 8, 2010

Summary: It must not be forgotten that salmon are sacred to indigenous peoples, not to colonizers and DFO. It is evident that DFO is concerned with protecting the commercial fishery at the expense of the indigenous way of life. It is time to recognize that an Aboriginal fishery could be sustained were it not for the ongoing circumvention of the requirement to prioritize conservation and food, social and ceremonial needs above other fisheries.

0347-HOLMESMSCRPBIO


Submitter: Richard Holmes M.Sc. R.P.Bio

Community: Likely

Date Submitted: Nov 8, 2010

Summary: Annual funding should be provided for the Horsefly sockeye spawning channel, which could be an integral part of the enhancement of the Quesnel and Horsefly watersheds. The federal government should also consider providing funds to accommodate a Chair in Freshwater Fisheries Research at the University of Northern British Columbia and the Dr. Max Blouw Quesnel River Research Centre. The Chair could use these institutions' existing resources and the local watershed's broad sockeye ecosystem to conduct important research on Fraser River sockeye.

0342-PARSONS


Submitter: Timothy Parsons

Community: Brentwood Bay, BC

Date Submitted: Nov 7, 2010

Summary: The predictive success of biological disciplines such as medicine and agriculture stem from their careful monitoring and diagnosis of problems rather than their use of models. Despite the development of fisheries oceanography, which attempts to study all the interactions of the ocean food chain in order to estimate the abundance and survival of fish species, the complexity of fisheries models has prevented them from presenting accurate or useful forecasts. To address this shortcoming, funding agencies should consider joint funding of collaborative research on the ocean life of salmon, about which very little is known. Funding would permit events such as the sudden appearance of a plankton bloom in the Gulf of Alaska or a surge in salmon populations to be followed and analyzed in near-time and forecasts to be issued with more certainty.

0340-ARSENAULT


Submitter: Darlene Arsenault

Community: Sayward

Date Submitted: Nov 3, 2010

Summary: Scientific evidence shows that fish farms cause pollution and are detrimental to wild fish stocks and other marine wildlife. DFO's fish farm responsibilities are in conflict with its other duties. Wild salmon are the cornerstone of the coastal ecosystem and must not be allowed to disappear.

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0337-PROCTOR


Submitter: Billy Proctor

Community: Simoom Sound

Date Submitted: Nov 2, 2010

Summary: In the early 1990s, DFO hosted a meeting in Alert Bay at which local fishers identified appropriate areas, or zones, for fish farms to be located. Today, 12 fish farms are located in zones that were identified as being dangerous to wild salmon, and chum and pink runs in the Broughton Archipelago have declined. The size of the 2010 Fraser sockeye return may have been caused by the simultaneous return of three- and five-year old sockeye, as well as by the absence of an IHN outbreak on fish farms when the 2010 return migrated north to the Pacific Ocean as smolts.

0335-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Nov 1, 2010

Summary: The pollution generated by aquaculture feedlots is extremely harmful to the entire B.C. coast, including humans and Fraser sockeye. The attached photos are a visual reminder of the ugliness of feedlots compared to the province's natural beauty. The photos emphasize the slow deterioration of aquaculture infrastructure over time, and illustrate the industry's aesthetic impact on B.C.'s coastal waterways.

0332-MCPHEE


Submitter: David McPhee

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 29, 2010

Summary: I would hope that the Commissioner will cause attention to be paid to the scientific and economic potential of onshore fish farming.

0329-WILSON


Submitter: Chief Judy Wilson

Community: Chase

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Chief Judy Wilson.)

The attached documents describe the Secwepemc people's efforts to protect the Salmon River delta from development. The presentation outlines the history of the Secwepemc people, explains the delta's environmental significance, and suggests that the federal government's fiduciary duty to protect aboriginal title, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Convention on Biological Diversity all require the proposed Salmon River delta development to have the prior informed consent of the Secwepemc people. The attached news release explains the Secwepemc Fisheries Commission's view that Canada must adopt a more conservative approach to fisheries management and grant First Nations a more central role in fisheries decisions.

0328-NICKERSON


Submitter: Michelle Nickerson

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Michelle Nickerson.)

Anthropogenic climate change is a critical habitat issue facing Fraser sockeye. Climate change will cause dramatic hydrograph changes, increasingly erratic winds, plankton blooms, and warmer temperatures and lower water levels in the Fraser River. Human population growth, urbanization, and bad decisions at all levels of society are further threats to salmon habitat. The "No Net Loss" and professional reliance models are inadequate. Aquaculture has a negative impact on wild salmon. Hatchery volunteers have extensive knowledge and experience and should be respected. The community of Lumby represents a positive example of how citizens can participate in the recovery of Fraser sockeye.

0327-WATER_588416


Submitter: Wetland Alliance: The Ecological Response

Community: Salmon Arm

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Wetland Alliance: The Ecological Response.)

The attached submission outlines attempts by the Wetland Alliance: The Ecological Response (WA:TER) to protect salmon habitat in the Salmon River delta from development. It includes lessons from WA:TER's experiences dealing with municipal, provincial, and federal governments, and six recommendations for improving the protection of fish habitat.

0326-PRUDHOMME


Submitter: Jim Prudhomme

Community: Kelowna

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Jim Prudhomme.)

Anglers understand that wild Pacific salmon are vital to the heritage and character of B.C. Many of the factors affecting wild salmon lie beyond the commission's mandate. Aquaculture, however, which is a clear and present danger to wild salmon, is clearly within the scope of the commission. The Commissioner should direct that all information relating to diseases and parasites on salmon farms since 1988 be released to the public.

0330-HAIGBROWN


Submitter: Alan Haig-Brown

Community: New Westminster

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend that DFO's "No Net Loss" policy be upgraded to restore more estuary habitat, which migrating salmon fry require to transition from fresh to saltwater. DFO must also be funded and given the responsibility of monitoring and maintaining all new and existing estuary restorations. To ensure the continued presence of Canadian fishers on the rivers and along the coast, the commission should recommend the implementation of an owner-operator provision for the salmon fishery such that the holder of a licence must be onboard the boat when it is fishing.

0324-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Oct 27, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Barbara Watson.)

Aquaculture operators refuse to release disease information, and fish farms threaten the destruction of wild stocks through feed and disease issues. As fry, the sockeye that returned in 2010 may have migrated south around Vancouver Island rather than north, thereby avoiding contact with fish farms. The introduction of large seine boats displaced jobs and caused economic hardship for fishing communities, and the aquaculture industry has done little to replace these jobs as most of its profits are funnelled to foreign corporations. Achieving sustainability for Fraser sockeye requires a return to fisheries policies that support smaller fishing boats, as well as the adoption of land-based aquaculture.

0325-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Oct 27, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Kamloops public forum as part of the submission by Priscilla Judd.)

The difference between salmon and the language of salmon must be recognized. The language of salmon means the abstract exercise of regulating the natural environment, which occurs on paper and does not exist in the physical world. Regulations must be balanced with common sense, which is the tool by which citizens participate in the complex challenges facing society. A more sensible approach to environmental regulation, such as the engineering model, is necessary.

0319-BAIRD


Submitter: Jim Baird

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2010

Summary: A version of the phenomenon highlighted by Dr. Timothy Parsons as a potential cause of the size of the 2010 Fraser sockeye run – a massive bloom of diatoms due to volcanic ash – has the potential to produce a limitless renewable energy source and significant economic activity for Canada. The Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion method, explained in the attached letter, offers the potential to convert the heat the oceans are accumulating due climate change into productive energy, as well as provide secondary benefits to salmon and other aquatic species.

0323-WELAND


Submitter: Marilyn Weland

Community: Duncan

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2010

Summary: In Chile, there is extensive newspaper coverage of the viruses and disease present in salmon farms. The commission should take a firm stand against the pressures exerted by international aquaculture businesses and protect wild stocks from the disease caused by fish farms.

0322-RUSSELL


Submitter: Mary Russell

Community: Port Hardy

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2010

Summary: DFO's draft new regulations for the aquaculture industry would loosen the bonds of environmental constraint on the industry and harmonize the various regulatory agencies, ministries and governments of Canada towards the goal of expanding aquaculture. Doing so could prevent the public from gaining the knowledge necessary to take corrective action. The decision to administer the regulations through Memoranda of Understanding emphasizes their lack democracy and accountability. It is hoped that the commission can rectify this state of affairs.

0321-FIELD


Submitter: Dorothy Field

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2010

Summary: British Columbians care deeply about the health of wild salmon, which are core to the vitality of the province. Conservation of wild salmon must be the primary goal of the public and of resource managers. The commission is urged to uphold the Fisheries Act and to apply the precautionary principle. Also attached are two poems about sockeye salmon.

0320-HERBERT


Submitter: Carolyn Herbert

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2010

Summary: Federal and provincial oversight of the aquaculture industry is failing due to poor communication between ministries. It is concerning that foreign aquaculture companies are not being held accountable to Canadian laws that prevent the use of environmentally-harmful substances. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency must be provided with data about pathogen outbreaks on salmon feedlots, and fish farms must be inspected by the government.

0314-WIESE


Submitter: Shawn Wiese

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: Canadians have the right to know what the effects of open pen fish farming are on the ecosystem.

0313-LSSS_844435


Submitter: Lower Shuswap Stewardship Society

Community: Enderby

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: The Lower Shuswap Stewardship Society requests that the Commissioner be given complete health and disease data for all salmon farms since the decline of Fraser sockeye began. Without a full data set, the commission's investigation will be flawed and incomplete.

0312-RUSSELL


Submitter: Mary Russell

Community: Port Hardy

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: DFO has betrayed Canada's wild fisheries and the public trust by colluding with salmon farmers, despite evidence that the industry is harmful to wild salmon. Escaped Atlantic salmon, which have established themselves on the B.C. coast, are a direct threat to wild salmon because they introduce exotic diseases such as ISA and compete for food and habitat. DFO's proposed aquaculture regulations would put the fish farming industry above the Fisheries Act. In addition, the aquaculture industry uses SLICE, which was banned for use on human food, in an irresponsible manner. The commission should ask the industry to release its disease records, and encourage the development of a Canadian, closed-containment industry.

0318-COMMANDEUR


Submitter: Colin Commandeur

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: The strength of the 2010 sockeye return does not prove that fish farming causes no harm, just as one cold winter does not disprove global warming. Studies by Scandinavian countries have found that sea lice, disease and concentrated waste from open net-pens are harmful to wild and hatchery-raised salmon. Fish farms, unlike other factors affecting salmon, are one variable that can be controlled, and they should be removed.

0311-GREEN


Submitter: William Green

Community: Burlington

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: Drift net fishing and the use of sonar have a devastating effect on Fraser sockeye. Consequently, the commission should recommend limits on the number of vessels from Canada and the U.S. that may engage in the commercial fishery, that all nets be limited to 100 meters or less and that enforcement efforts be increased to prevent overfishing. B.C. salmon are a Canadian resource and must be protected by Canadian law against predatory fishers.

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0315-SIMON


Submitter: Lana Simon

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 25, 2010

Summary: Fish farming is concerning as it may lead to the eventual loss of wild salmon. The commission should order the full disclosure of disease information so the public can learn if salmon farmers are responsible for the decline. The Commissioner has the opportunity to be the pivotal force that allows wild salmon to remain healthy for generations.

0310-KURAHASHI


Submitter: Elina Kurahashi

Community: Abbotsford

Date Submitted: Oct 24, 2010

Summary: I wish that my children's children will inherit a world with wonders such as the Weaver Creek salmon run.

0309-MACINTOSH


Submitter: Linda MacIntosh

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 24, 2010

Summary: The attached report, "Evaluating Alaska's Ocean-Ranching Salmon Hatcheries", identifies four potential impacts of hatchery salmon on wild salmon: genetic risk from straying and mixing populations, fish disease transfer, strain on the carrying capacity of the ocean, and the accidental catch of wild salmon in hatchery salmon fisheries. The commission should consider these impacts, particularly the second and fourth impact, in its investigation of Fraser sockeye.

0306-CROWE


Submitter: Jean Crowe

Community: Kamloops

Date Submitted: Oct 22, 2010

Summary: I urge the commission to recommend that salmon farms be closed, and that the paving over of wetlands and streams be stopped. Increased vigilance of all BC waters must be mandated before BC's salmon habitat is completely destroyed. Put this to the voters: will business or a healthy environment be our future?

0305-DWYER


Submitter: Frank Dwyer

Community: Kamloops

Date Submitted: Oct 22, 2010

Summary: The commission should view the decline of Fraser sockeye in the context of the ongoing disappearance of other salmonids. The West Coast scientific community has very little knowledge about what happens to salmonids and the factors explaining the decline. What is needed overall is less argument, greater caution and much more knowledge through objective and independent scientific inquiry.

0308-RYAN


Submitter: Annie Ryan

Community: Toronto

Date Submitted: Oct 22, 2010

Summary: The federal budget should include funding for closed-containment pilot projects to facilitate the transition from open net-cage to closed-containment aquaculture.

0307-WOOD


Submitter: Lorraine Wood

Community: Vavenby

Date Submitted: Oct 22, 2010

Summary: Commercial fishing should not occur in sheltered and inland waters, smaller nets must be used by all fishers, fish farms should be fallowed, enforcement and information gathering must be improved, and a plan for abnormally hot years must be developed.

0303-ACA_924254


Submitter: Area "A" Crab Association

Community: UCLUELET

Date Submitted: Oct 21, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Nanaimo public forum as part of the submission by the Area "A" Crab Association.)

The major problem facing the Canadian fishery is political and bureaucratic interference and mismanagement. For example, DFO refused to fully implement the recommendations of an independent review of its consultation processes following the collapse of the fishery in 1999. In 2010, DFO mismanagement prevented commercial fishers on the west coast of Vancouver Island from accessing the Fraser sockeye return. The commission should recommend the implementation of an ecosystem-based integrated management scheme based on sound science and principle-driven allocation processes.

0304-MACEY


Submitter: Matt Macey

Community: Comox,

Date Submitted: Oct 21, 2010

Summary: It is frustrating that so many public submissions have targeted salmon farming. The commission should recognize that salmon farming is only one of many issues to examine. Urbanization, predation, non-retention fisheries, and, in particular, hatcheries, likely have a much more profound effect on wild salmon. The commission should conduct an extensive investigation of hatcheries and their threat to salmon abundance and biological diversity.

0300-CLAYDON


Submitter: Philip Claydon

Community: Kamloops

Date Submitted: Oct 20, 2010

Summary: Ensuring that future generations have the opportunity to enjoy, harvest and celebrate Pacific salmon requires transparent, accountable and well-funded leadership; an increase in the monetary value of fish; an active and effective system of volunteers to protect fish ecosystems and engage the public; the restriction of commercial fishing to selective methods and locations along the Fraser River; and the expansion of sport fishing opportunities.

0298-LACUNA


Submitter: Joseph Lacuna

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 19, 2010

Summary: It has been proven that open net-pen fish farms on wild salmon migratory routes play a large part in the decline of salmon returns. If they are here to stay, fish farms should be moved onto land.

0296-CLARK


Submitter: Jean Clark

Community: Enderby

Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2010

Summary: It is imperative that the commission be allowed full access to all coastal fish farm disease data. Incomplete data will invalidate this aspect of the commission's work and make it impossible to link years of decline with potential disease contamination by aquaculture.

0297-FULTON


Submitter: Kim Fulton

Community: Armstrong

Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2010

Summary: Education of the public is one of the keys for maintaining Pacific salmon runs. It is important that educational programs such as DFO's "Salmonids in the Classroom" and "Stream to Sea" continue to be funded and supported. The precautionary principle must be applied to the aquaculture industry and the use of chemical compounds in consumer products. The environment must be made a priority over the economy.

0294-WILD


Submitter: Ted Wild

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2010

Summary: The aquaculture industry provides much needed employment in B.C. communities. From an environmental perspective, fish farms appear to be doing what is necessary to protect the environment, and safety, testing, and monitoring appear to be among their top priorities.

0293-SANDERS


Submitter: Gillian Sanders

Community: Kaslo

Date Submitted: Oct 17, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the disease records of fish farms near the mouth of the Fraser River to determine if there is a correlation between disease outbreaks and the decline of wild stocks.

0290-MACNEILL


Submitter: james macneill

Community: vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: Ocean fish farming supports the coastal economy, particularly in areas hard hit by the decline of forestry, and it provides employment for First Nations and remote communities. Anti-fish farm activists are funded by U.S. groups whose purpose is the destruction of the aquaculture industry and the loss of B.C. jobs. It is disturbing that the media reports the claims of anti-fish farm activists as truth. The record 2010 return of Fraser sockeye shows that wild salmon can thrive in the presence of fish farms.

0285-MELLORS


Submitter: James Mellors

Community: Vernon

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: The commission's recommendations, which will influence the future of wild salmon stocks, should be made binding on all parties. Other species and runs of salmon are likely being affected by the same factors as sockeye, and the commission should make secondary recommendations to address these species. Fraser sockeye runs were generally sustainable until fish farms were placed directly on their migratory routes. Reports indicate that fish farms transmit the IHN virus and sea lice to migrating wild salmon. It is concerning that aquaculture companies, many of which are foreign-owned, refuse to provide records of viral outbreaks. The aquaculture industry should adopt closed-containment technologies.

0289-KENDRICK


Submitter: Paul Kendrick

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: The size of the 2010 Fraser sockeye run suggests that salmon farms did not affect the 2009 run. Instead, sockeye are likely impacted by a variety of complex issues, such as ocean survival rates, water temperature, unusual plankton blooms, low dissolved oxygen levels, predation and competition from ranched Alaskan salmon. The commission should focus on scientific evidence rather than unsubstantiated opinion, and conduct its investigation in an open and objective manner.

0288-KYLE


Submitter: Ron Kyle

Community: goldriver

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: Despite claims that the aquaculture industry is responsible for the collapse of wild sockeye, 2010 saw the best returns of wild salmon in perhaps 100 years. It should not be forgotten that the aquaculture industry, which provides healthy food and jobs, was started in response to the collapse of salmon runs due to overfishing, mining and logging near salmon streams, and environmental factors.

0287-DURAND


Submitter: Joel Durand

Community: Campbell RIver

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: The 2009 annual fish health report confirms that BC farm-raised salmon are very healthy. Previous annual reports have been available online since 2003. If fish health and aquaculture is of interest to the commission, then it should investigate interactions between wild salmon and the billions of hatchery-raised salmon that are released each year.

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0291-VANSNICK


Submitter: Ann Vansnick

Community: Sayward

Date Submitted: Oct 15, 2010

Summary: DFO harvest management should be investigated in the context of the annual release of billions of hatchery salmon into the Pacific Northwest. According to a new study in Marine Coastal Fisheries, the combined abundance of wild and hatchery fish leads to overharvesting of the wild stock.

0279-COSTELLO


Submitter: James Costello

Community: Ucluelet

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: The opposition to salmon farming is attempting to mislead the public and harm the reputation of the salmon farming community. It is essential to remember that fluctuations in run sizes and concerns over declining stocks were present before the advent of aquaculture and were a key factor in its development. The Cohen Commission should consider all the factors affecting wild salmon and resist calls to focus on salmon farming as the culprit in the decline of some wild salmon populations.

0278-EDWARDS


Submitter: Elena Edwards

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Chilliwack public forum as part of the submission by Elena Edwards.)

To determine what is necessary to ensure a healthy future for Fraser sockeye, the commission should consider why the Fraser River is fourth on the list of endangered B.C. rivers. Sewage, industrial agriculture, urban development, reduced protection for urban stream tributaries, transportation corridors, logging, gravel extraction and other factors have comprised salmon habitat. Wild salmon have also been negatively affected by fish farms, which introduce alien Atlantic salmon and promote the spread of disease. The commission should investigate traditional First Nations harvesting practices as an example of a sustainable fishery.

0277-HARPER


Submitter: Peter Harper

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: Critics of the salmon farming industry make statements on conjecture rather than science. The record return of wild salmon indicates that salmon farms do not harm wild stocks. Instead of salmon farms, the public should focus instead on the numerous environmental factors that are known to be detrimental to wild salmon.

0276-COSTIN


Submitter: Donald Costin

Community: Chilliwack

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Chilliwack public forum as part of the submission by Donald Costin.)

The attached presentation addresses the difficulty of determining the causes of the decline of Fraser sockeye, the effects of toxic substances on salmon habitat, the impact of pollution and acid rain on aquatic life, the effect of oil and gas from recreational vessels on Cultus Lake sockeye and the need to make previous scientific reports public. It concludes by emphasizing that legislative change is necessary to secure the future of Fraser sockeye.

0275-UFFCA_984873


Submitter: Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Prince George public forum as part of the submission by the Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance.)

The attached letter from the Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance (UFFCA) to Paul Sprout, Regional Director General, Pacific Region, outlines the UFFCA's concerns regarding the projected 2010 abundance of Early Summer and Summer sockeye runs that spawn in the upper Fraser region. It requests that DFO provide specific planning options and information to the UFFCA with the objective of maximizing sockeye escapement to the upper Fraser in order to protect specific stocks and ensure that conservation and First Nations' food, social and ceremonial fishing needs are met.

0283-WADDEN


Submitter: Richard Wadden

Community: Sechelt , B.C.

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: I have worked in the aquaculture industry for about 15 years. Some of my brothers and a sister in law have worked in this industry for longer. I consider ourselves to be ethical persons and we would not be in this industry if we thought we were doing harm.

0282-WOODWORTH


Submitter: Sabra Woodworth

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Chilliwack public forum as part of the submission by Sabra Woodworth.)

The attached presentation focuses on the commission's investigation of DFO practices. It reviews previous reports on Fraser sockeye, including numerous Auditor General reports, and argues that these reports form the context within which the commission's terms of reference must be understood. The presentation argues that DFO's habitat impact assessments, monitoring plans, and mitigation measures, particularly as they relate to fish farming, are inadequate or nonexistent. It suggests that DFO's mandate to promote aquaculture is in direct competition with its mandate to protect wild salmon, and that by refusing to classify it as a fishery DFO has avoided its responsibility to regulate aquaculture. It recommends that DFO be divided into a Department of Aquaculture and a Department of Fisheries and that disease and sea lice monitoring of the aquaculture industry be enhanced.

0281-TYLER


Submitter: Tim Tyler

Community: Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Chilliwack public forum as part of the submission by Tim Tyler.)

The attached submission addresses salmon enhancement efforts on Coquitlam River, DFO management, and private prosecutions under the Fisheries Act. It calls on the Commissioner to recommend that the enforcement and prosecution arm of DFO be separated from the rest of the organization and that it be given a budget through an arbitrary allotment that would insulate it from political interference. The submission also calls on the Commissioner to recommend that private prosecutions under the Fisheries Act be encouraged and that a legislative formula be developed to prevent government from arbitrarily staying or assuming such prosecutions.

0280-DAYTON


Submitter: Tim Dayton

Community: Langley

Date Submitted: Oct 14, 2010

Summary: The commission must examine the pollution and destruction of habitat in the Fraser River and other major sockeye spawning rivers. Special attention should be paid to the increased and persistent presence of chemicals such as estrogen (birth control) from treated and untreated sewage, on fish reproduction and survival.

0271-REZANSOFF


Submitter: Bob Rezansoff

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Oct 13, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Bob Rezansoff.)

The attached presentation argues that there is currently too much focus on conservation and that any discussion of the sustainability of Fraser sockeye should include consideration of the sustainability of the fishing industry. It suggest that protecting weak stocks through escapement targets has a detrimental effect on stronger stocks and on the industry, and that due to political expediency, there are currently substantial unreported fisheries which impede fisheries management. It describes the importance of protecting salmon habitat and advocates the use of an individual transferable quota system for all salmon fisheries. It includes a list of specific recommendations and concludes by suggesting that much academic research and public opinion on fisheries has been shaped by the influence of wealthy charitable foundations.

0274-LOEWEN


Submitter: David Loewen

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Oct 13, 2010

Summary: (The attached presentation was provided to the commission at the Prince George public forum as part of the submission by David Loewen.)

The attached presentation describes the evolutionary history of salmon and their importance to the people and animals of the North Pacific. It addresses the complexity of the issues facing salmon, including logging, and emphasizes that preserving salmon habitat is easier than repairing it. The presentation also highlights gaps between DFO's current estimate of historical salmon populations and past estimates, as well as perceived deficiencies of the Wild Salmon Policy. It discusses how salmon energy links social and ecological systems, and calls for the implementation of ecosystem based fisheries management that includes citizen participation and local knowledge.

0273-ERICKSON


Submitter: Pete Erickson

Community: Fort St. James

Date Submitted: Oct 13, 2010

Summary: (The attached presentation was provided to the commission at the Prince George public forum as part of the submission by Pete Erickson.)

The attached presentation outlines the importance of salmon to the history and culture of the Yinka Dene people. In particular, it highlights Yinka Dene resource management and fishing techniques.

0272-STANIFORD


Submitter: Don Staniford

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 13, 2010

Summary: (The attached presentation was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Don Staniford.)

A wild salmon fishery would support a stronger coastal economy than do salmon farms, most of which are run by Norwegian corporations. The Commissioner should demand disease information from salmon farmers in order to address the causes of the 2009 sockeye collapse. Supermarkets should refuse to sell farmed salmon and salmon farms should adopt closed-containment facilities. Saving wild salmon is the responsibility of all British Columbians.

0270-MCEACHERN


Submitter: Darrel McEachern

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Oct 12, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Darrel McEachern.)

Salmon gillnetters on the B.C. coast have a derby-style fishery, which is not compatible with conservation goals. The commission should recommend that an individual transferrable quota harvesting method be implemented. Doing so would give the fishery the tools and flexibility to adopt to changes and become economically viable.

0269-MADDEN


Submitter: John Madden

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 12, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents are a supplement to the submission by John Madden at the New Westminster public forum.)

Attached are copies of John Madden's correspondence with DFO and with the BC Salmon Farmers Association regarding the use of closed containment fish farming systems.

0268-GUERIN


Submitter: Victor Guerin

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 12, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Victor Guerin.)

First Nations took extensive measures to promote the abundance of natural resources in their ancestral territories. Saving Fraser sockeye will require protecting and restoring salmon habitat, much of which has been destroyed by development in Vancouver.

0267-STIEDA


Submitter: Sieglinde STIEDA

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: Oct 10, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend that salmon farms be closed, that the paving over of wetlands and streams be stopped, that salmon ecology be added to the curriculum in B.C. schools and that public education about the importance of salmon be increased.

0263-HAWKSHAW


Submitter: Fred and Linda Hawkshaw

Community: Terrace

Date Submitted: Oct 7, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Prince Rupert public forum.)

DFO's mitigation of by-catch in commercial fisheries must be improved. The commission should recommend that the maximum mesh size and hang-ratio of conventional gill nets be reformatted, which would permit larger sockeye to escape to spawning grounds. The commission should also investigate DFO's advisory board process, the interception of Fraser sockeye by Alaskan fisheries and the implications of size-selective fishing for salmon biology.

0261-WATT


Submitter: Laurie Watt

Community: New Westminster

Date Submitted: Oct 7, 2010

Summary: Open net-cage salmon feedlots are killing wild salmon in plain view of DFO, which has the impossible dual responsibilities of promoting aquaculture and protecting wild salmon. Promotion of aquaculture should be transferred from DFO to another ministry.

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0264-PARSONS


Submitter: Timothy R. Parsons

Community: Brentwood Bay

Date Submitted: Oct 7, 2010

Summary: A paper by Roberta Hamme reports on the phenomenal growth of a diatom bloom in the Gulf of Alaska starting in 2008. At that time, the salmon returning in 2010 would have been in the midpoint of their growth cycle and could benefit most by the expanded food chain, while the 2009 sockeye would have been ending their period of maximum growth. This may explain the difference in return sizes between 2009 and 2010, and suggests that the forecasting of sockeye returns should be based more on food conditions in the Gulf of Alaska.

0259-GLUMAC


Submitter: Rick Glumac

Community: Port Moody

Date Submitted: Oct 6, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Rick Glumac.)

A common theme in past reports on Fraser salmon, many of which have been ignored, is a concern that salmon farming could pose a risk to wild salmon and that the precautionary principle demands that the risk be eliminated. The commission should recommend that the salmon farming industry transition to closed containment immediately.

0258-ELCFOLUOV_776373


Submitter: Environmental Law Centre, Faculty of Law, Universi

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 6, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Paddy O'Reilly.)

The Re-Inventing Rainwater Management Report by the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Victoria, attached, details the damage caused by stormwater runoff to the Capital Region, including salmon streams. It explains how the temperature, velocity and toxicity of stormwater destroys salmon habitat and kills salmon, and suggests that runoff is the biggest obstacle to habitat restoration. The report offers several recommendations for addressing these and other challenges associated with stormwater runoff.

0257-DEAN


Submitter: Paul Dean

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 6, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Paul Dean.)

Wild salmon are a nutritious food source that must be protected. Corporations have damaged numerous salmon runs and fish habitat. Regulatory agencies should use the precautionary principle in all cases where there is a reasonable chance of harming wild salmon.

0256-BRAUER


Submitter: Celia Brauer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 6, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Celia Brauer.)

Humanity's present relationship with the environment is the cause for the decline of Fraser sockeye. Industrialization and urbanization must be curtailed, even if that requires shutting down fish farms, halting freeway construction, decreasing population growth and restoring natural ecosystems.

0255-BARKUSKY


Submitter: Michael Barkusky

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Oct 6, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the New Westminster public forum as part of the submission by Michael Barkusky.)

It is useful to think of the wild sockeye ecological system not as a flow of resources but as a natural capital asset. Consequently, it is logical to make the precautionary principle the cornerstone of management of the fishery. Ecological sustainability must be considered the primary goal when balancing economic efficiency with social equity.

0254-LEYWARD


Submitter: Barbara Leyward

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Oct 5, 2010

Summary: Hatchery salmon may be a threat to Fraser sockeye. They have a competitive advantage due to their size, and may pose genetic and health risks.

0252-UELC_364683


Submitter: UVic Environmental Law Centre

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 5, 2010

Summary: (This video was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre.)

"Where it falls: Re-inventing Rainwater Management" describes the problem of storm water runoff in the Capital Regional District. The video features interviews with various experts and outlines how storm water, which picks up toxic chemicals as it sweeps over urban areas, is conveyed into sensitive water bodies at high speed and volume, killing salmon and destroying their habitat. The video also offers solutions for effective storm water management

0251-SEWID


Submitter: Harold Sewid

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Oct 5, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Chief Harold Sewid.)

The attached speaking notes of Chief Harold Sewid address First Nations' awareness of fluctuating salmon returns, the impact of clear cut logging on salmon habitat, the impact of DFO's policies and estimates on the commercial fishery, and the need for DFO to consult more closely with First Nations.

0246-SEIOBC_228825


Submitter: Social Ecology Institute of British Columbia

Community: Cowichan Bay

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Daniel Lousier.)

The attached presentation by J. Daniel Lousier, PhD of the Social Ecology Institute of British Columbia, deals with three of the commission's key questions. It offers a vision for the sustainability of Fraser sockeye, recommends key knowledge and awareness strategies for securing the future of Fraser sockeye, and identifies habitat issues and possible mitigation measures.

0245-HUSBAND


Submitter: Vicky Husband

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Vicky Husband.)

The attached documents include several recommendations for conserving the diversity and abundance of Fraser sockeye, as well as an editorial that argues against the theory that overspawning causes stock collapses.

0244-TSMCF_226000


Submitter: The SOS Marine Conservation Foundation

Community: Port McNeill

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Eric Hobson.)

The attached presentation describes the membership and goals of the SOS Marine Conservation Foundation, as well the foundation's three point plan for protecting wild salmon stocks and establishing British Columbia as a leader in creating a stable and viable aquaculture industry.

0243-ARTI_255266


Submitter: Artist Response Team Inc.

Community: Crofton

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Holly Arntzen.)

To ensure the sustainability of Fraser sockeye, citizens must become ecologically literate; place a high value on wild salmon; work together to restore habitats, engage the political process and demand sustainable policies; and engage cultural tools, including music, environmental education and concerts, to drive a shift in culture.

0250-MCISAAC


Submitter: Jim McIsaac

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached documents were provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Jim McIsaac.)

The attached documents outline Jim McIsaac's fisheries experience and provide commentary on the difficulty of achieving accurate stock assessments, the impact of predators on Fraser sockeye, the implications of the Pacific Salmon Treaty for commercial fishers, discrepancies in DFO's counts of the 2010 Fraser sockeye return, and pesticides in the aquatic environment, as well as recommendations for achieving a sustainable Fraser sockeye fishery.

0248-ANDERSON


Submitter: Andrea Carol Anderson

Community: Heriot Bay

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: My vision is that this commission will support and require the DFO to honour the concept of sustainability and give DFO workers the permission and authority they need to act to protect ecosystems and fish. Damaging practices and cover-ups by open- net farms need to be disallowed, and farms required to move to closed containment. Sensible harvesting is well-addressed in Chapter 5 of "Assu of Cape Mudge: Recollections of a Coastal Indian Chief" by Harry Assu and Joy Inglis.

I wish I could be in Vancouver on the 25th to support Justice Cohen and you all in the opening of the Inquiry. I think this is a large, difficult and extremely-important undertaking. Thank you for being there.

0247-MARKS


Submitter: Chris Marks

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Oct 4, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Victoria public forum as part of the submission by Chris Marks.)

Credible science shows a connection between open net-pen aquaculture and the decline of wild salmon stocks. DFO should apply the precautionary principle and mandate that fish farms be moved to closed containment systems, and disease reporting by aquaculture corporations should be made mandatory. A
recent article in Virology Journal traces the transmission of the ISA virus from Europe to South America, which contradicts recent statements by DFO that the virus does not travel in eggs. The commission should thoroughly investigate the aquaculture industry to ensure the public has a balanced understanding of its risks to wild salmon.

0241-KARLINER


Submitter: Capt Robert Karliner

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Oct 1, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Steveston public forum as part of the submission by Captain Robert Karliner.)

The attached document describes Captain Karliner's involvement in the commercial fishery. It also encourages the commission to investigate the disappearance of over 700,000 sockeye between Mission Bridge and Hell's Gate from September 3 to September 6, 2010.

0239-THORKELSON


Submitter: Joy Thorkelson

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Prince Rupert public forum as part of the submission by Joy Thorkelson.)

The attached presentation contains several graphs that show that reduced marine exploitation rates and increased escapement sizes do not lead to higher salmon returns, which in turn illustrates the ineffectiveness of DFO's escapement policy.

0234-PHILLIPS


Submitter: Jerry Phillips

Community: Qualicum Beach

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2010

Summary: DFO does not have sufficient local staff. It makes decisions for political and commercial reasons, rather than for scientific ones.

0238-HACK


Submitter: Les Hack

Community: Chilliwack

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend that for five years following its conclusion an annual report be produced showing which of the commission's recommendations have been approved or implemented. As public accountability is implicit in the commission's mandate, such a report would be both justifiable and expedient.

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0237-NNFC_781027


Submitter: Northern Native Fishing Corporation

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Prince Rupert public forum as part of the submission by Mabel Mazurek.)

A voluntary commercial licence tie-up program, similar to the Pacific Vessel Tie-Up Program launched by DFO in 1998, is necessary. Such a program would assist fishers to offset costs while furthering fish conservation efforts. It would also provide stabilization and maintain infrastructure through boom and bust cycles and protect new entrants to the industry.

0236-NCFNSS_350390


Submitter: North Coast-Skeena First Nations Stewardship Socie

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Prince Rupert public forum as part of the submission by Cristina Soto.)

Human sustainability must be studied in addition to salmon sustainability. A lack of inclusiveness exists around DFO's management decisions and consultation with First Nations. An assessment of the social, economic and biological consequences of salmon fisheries should be included in salmon management practices. Improved science around stock assessment, marine survival issues and the effect of hatcheries is necessary. Climate change is one of the major habitat issues for Fraser sockeye.

0235-COONS


Submitter: Gary Coons

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Sep 29, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Prince Rupert public forum as part of the submission by Gary Coons, MLA, North Coast.)

The large difference between the 2009 and 2010 Fraser sockeye returns illustrates the need for a strategic provincial plan to ensure the sustainability of coastal communities. The commission should consider mismanagement, excessive centralization and a lack of sufficient baseline research in its investigation of DFO. Further research is necessary to address critical knowledge gaps around Fraser sockeye. DFO should move away from the fixed escapement policy and should consider the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's salmon management model.

0231-ONCLIN


Submitter: Kevin Onclin

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Kevin Onclin.)

Even in remote areas, salmon genetics and ecosystems are being altered. All of the techniques employed by countries with salmon resources must be studied and, where beneficial, emulated. Fish farming is not necessarily a cause of the decline of Fraser sockeye. A better use of the money for the commission would have been to finance and improve the ongoing monitoring and management of the Fraser River and other Canadian sockeye populations.

0233-GAUDARD


Submitter: Donna Gaudard

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2010

Summary: DFO should take a stronger stand in support of wild fish. Fish farms should operate in land-based, closed containment systems.

0232-GRIFFIOEN


Submitter: Ward Griffioen

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2010

Summary: Given their diet, it is unlikely that salmon smolts view fish farms as potential feeding sites. For this reason, fish farms are likely not the cause for the decline of wild sockeye populations.

0230-REYNOLDS


Submitter: Tannis Reynolds

Community: Fraser Lake

Date Submitted: Sep 25, 2010

Summary: The scale of threats to wild sockeye salmon must be measured. Anyone who harms wild salmon should be held accountable and required to pay a fee towards making a more sustainable future. A thorough investigation into responsible fisheries management is necessary.

0229-COX


Submitter: J. David Cox

Community: Surge Narrows

Date Submitted: Sep 25, 2010

Summary: The commission's Terms of Reference should be rejected for failing to permit the Commissioner to lay blame or investigate marine issues such as climate change, fishing by foreign nations, food supply changes and the El Nino effect. The commission should consult with people who have real fisheries experience, rather than with former DFO staff. The commission should recommend that DFO be dismantled and reconstructed as a citizen-driven organization headquartered on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. All resources should be dedicated to salmon enhancement programs, and industry must be required to undertake enhancement efforts similar to those in the forestry industry.

0227-NAKNAKIM


Submitter: Rod Naknakim

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Rod Naknakim.)

The attached document addresses the history of the Laich-Kwil-Tach people and their dependence on Fraser River sockeye. It calls for conservation to be made the primary focus of fisheries management, and for DFO policy to be changed to permit harvesting of 80% of the annual Fraser sockeye return, regardless of its size.

0226-MILLIGAN


Submitter: Barry Milligan

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Dr. Barry Milligan, Fish Health Manager at Grieg Seafood BC.)

The attached presentation provides an outline of the aquaculture industry's disease situation and fish health practices. It addresses broodstock screening and importation; freshwater screening, vaccination and entry; saltwater disease screening and treatment; and sea lice monitoring and treatment.

0225-MH_384157


Submitter: Marine Harvest

Community: Comox

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Greg Gibson, Environmental Assessment Biologist at Marine Harvest Canada.)

The attached presentation outlines Marine Harvest Canada's benthic management practices. It includes a list of the tools and methods employed, as well as a chart illustrating benthic monitoring results.

0224-WTA_360622


Submitter: Wilderness Tourism Association

Community: Cumberland

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Evan Loveless on behalf of the Wilderness Tourism Association.)

Independent, published science indicates that sea lice and viruses from open net-cage fish farming have a significant impact on B.C.'s salmon stocks. DFO's efforts to promote the aquaculture industry appear to be in direct conflict with its mandate to protect wild fisheries. Closed containment is the only permanent solution to mitigate the impacts on Fraser River sockeye, and needs to be embraced by all stakeholders.

0223-MHC_498478


Submitter: Marine Harvest Canada

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Brad Boyce, Senior Fish Health Technician at Marine Harvest Canada.)

The attached presentation outlines Marine Harvest Canada's sea lice and fish health management methods. It includes a chart illustrating the mean number of sea lice per fish on all Marine Harvest Canada farms from January 2006 to March 2010.

0222-CREPG_403598


Submitter: Campbell River Estuary Protection Group

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Campbell River public forum as part of the submission by Leona Adams on behalf of the Campbell River Estuary Protection Group.)

DFO should no longer be permitted to both regulate and promote open net fish farming, which is a clear conflict of interest. The commission should make several recommendations to reduce the harm of fish farms to Fraser sockeye and to ensure DFO becomes strictly a regulatory body.

0228-MCGUIRE


Submitter: Pat McGuire

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2010

Summary: The commission should listen to the will of the public, including First Nations, and recommend the permanent removal of fish farms on Fraser salmon migration routes in order to protect wild salmon.

0221-ITO_936255


Submitter: Intertribal Treaty Organization

Community: New Westminster

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Saul Terry.)

The Intertribal Treaty Organization was established in 2009 to implement the 1989 Inter-Tribal Fishing Treaty between Indian Nations, which remains a tool for Fraser River First Nations to assert jurisdiction over the salmon fisheries within their traditional territories. The attached document includes a report on the ITO's 2009-10 workshops and the ITO Constitution and Bylaws.

0220-NORTH


Submitter: Kim North

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Kim North.)

The citizens of B.C. should be included in adaptive approaches to watershed management. The federal and provincial governments should be required to undertake real citizen engagement that is creative and inclusive. The attached document offers recommendations for achieving this.

0219-LEECH


Submitter: Norm Leech

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Norm Leech.)

The T'it'q'et Constitution, attached, guides the T'it'q'et people and reflects the importance of salmon to their culture.

0218-LEACH


Submitter: Mike Leach

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Mike Leach.)

The decline of Fraser River sockeye is a human and political issue, not a natural one. The federal government needs to integrate traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices into its management of the fisheries.

0216-HENSELWOOD


Submitter: Kerry Coast Henselwood

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Kerry Coast Henselwood.)

The attached document comments and makes recommendations on aspects of the Wild Salmon Policy and its lack of implementation; DFO catch monitoring programs; engagement between DFO and First Nations in fisheries planning processes; the functional absence of federal regulations protecting salmon habitat; and the make-up of the commercial fishery and the fundamental flaw of its location.

Submission List

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0215-LEMONNIER


Submitter: Sandy Le Monnier

Community: Port Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Sep 22, 2010

Summary: There is evidence that Atlantic salmon fish farms on salmon migratory routes are harmful to native wild salmon.

0213-BALLARD


Submitter: Pamela Ballard

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Sep 21, 2010

Summary: I am proud to be part of the aquaculture community.

0212-WALKER


Submitter: janet walker

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 20, 2010

Summary: Open net fish farms must be legislated to move to land-based closed containment systems.

0211-LOISELLE


Submitter: Maureen Loiselle

Community: Thetis Island,

Date Submitted: Sep 20, 2010

Summary: Scientific research shows that wild fish stocks are being severely damaged by irresponsible fisheries management and the corporate takeover of democratic governments.

0209-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Sep 19, 2010

Summary: The following link contains information about the Norwegian perspective on the connection between salmon farms, disease issues and politics in Norway. Canadian media must readjust their priorities to provide more coverage of the Cohen Commission and wild salmon-related issues.

0207-CROZIER


Submitter: Nancy Crozier

Community: Gabriola

Date Submitted: Sep 18, 2010

Summary: First Nations people should be accorded stewardship of the Fraser River sockeye run. They should be provided with the mandate and funding to preserve Fraser sockeye from overfishing, pollution and human development.

0208-TIMMS


Submitter: GLEN TIMMS

Community: VICTORIA

Date Submitted: Sep 18, 2010

Summary: In order to protect wild salmon from sea lice and other contaminants and diseases, salmon farming must be moved on land and into contained environments.

0205-ATKINSON


Submitter: Dierdre Atkinson

Community: Hornby Island

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: Transitioning to land-based closed containment aquaculture would remove the risk that feedlots transfer sea lice or IHN to wild salmon. The proposed federal aquaculture regulations do not offer sufficient protection of wild salmon stocks.

0204-VERRENDELBRIDGE


Submitter: rosemary verren-delbridge

Community: sooke

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: Salmon farms must be monitored to mitigate the impact of parasites and ensure fish health. Monetary grants should be given for research into an environmental solution to sea lice. More hatcheries should be built to ensure the health of wild salmon stocks.

0203-ZILKER


Submitter: Wolfgang Zilker

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: Open net fish farms must be legislated to move to closed containment systems.

0202-PEPPER


Submitter: Katherine Pepper

Community: Gabriola Island

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: Do not threaten wild salmon with farmed fish.

0201-IRVING


Submitter: Bill Irving

Community: Ucluelet

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: The commission should visit the west coast of Vancouver Island, which has a significant stake in the management of Fraser River sockeye. The commission should also examine area licensing, stacking and transferable quotas in light of their social and economic impacts on communities adjacent to stocks. In general, the commission should review DFO's goals and management, as well as its alienation of communities from salmon stocks swimming past their harbours. Sustaining local fisheries requires proper management and funding.

0206-CAMERON


Submitter: robert cameron

Community: madeira park

Date Submitted: Sep 17, 2010

Summary: DFO's management of the 2010 return illustrates that it no longer considers the economic benefit of wild salmon. Closing the sockeye fishery to achieve minimal improvements in Coho stocks does not meet DFO's directive of providing economic gain for the public. DFO must move away from the failed policies of selective fishing and terminal fisheries.

0197-TEBBUTT


Submitter: Peter Tebbutt

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Sep 16, 2010

Summary: DFO has mismanaged the salmon fishery. Its promotion of open net pen fish farming, which is exacerbating the problems facing salmon, is at odds with its mandate to protect wild fish species and the ocean environment. The commission should uphold the protection of wild salmon above all else. Open net pen fish farms should only be permitted to operate on land.

0196-QURESHI


Submitter: Joanna Qureshi

Community: Parksville

Date Submitted: Sep 16, 2010

Summary: The 2010 Fraser sockeye return cannot be seen as a reason to cease investigation into the possible reasons for the downward trend over past years. The commission should strive to remain uninfluenced by provincial and federal political agendas.

0199-CREESE


Submitter: robert creese

Community: victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 16, 2010

Summary: The methods used by fish farming companies incur real and permanent environmental damage. New regulations to protect wild salmon stocks are paramount. The economic health of B.C. is greater served by wild stocks, not fish farms.

0198-BARTER


Submitter: Mark Barter

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 16, 2010

Summary: A noticeable decline in wild salmon stocks occurred following the arrival of salmon farms on the B.C. coast. The refusal by salmon farms to report disease outbreaks and provide tissue samples is unacceptable. The commission should recommend that open net pen fish farms be completely eliminated under a strict timeline.

0188-MCBRIDE


Submitter: Deb McBride

Community: Squamish

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: The commission should consider protecting estuaries a priority, and recommend that salmon migration routes be kept free of fish farms and pollution.

0187-FALL


Submitter: Michael Fall

Community: Ladysmith

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Human development and economic activity, including fish farming, has destroyed salmon breeding grounds and fouled salmon migration corridors. The commission should recommend that DFO apply environmental laws equally to individuals and industries and that DFO be required to make management and enforcement decisions based on science rather than politics.

0186-SHERWOOD


Submitter: Robert and Deborah Sherwood

Community: Osoyoos

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Scientific evidence shows that sea lice, antibiotics and sewage from open net pen fish farms are causing the disappearance of wild salmon. The commission should recommend that salmon farms, which are operated in an uncooperative, disdainful and probably illegal fashion, be removed from ocean waters.

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0185-BROWN


Submitter: Herbert Brown

Community: Blind Bay

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: The commission must do all it can to ensure the survival of wild salmon stocks.

0184-WHITE


Submitter: Cameron White

Community: Calgary

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Farmed salmon should be harvested in a manner that isolates them from the natural ecosystem.

0194-PEARLMAN


Submitter: Myra Pearlman

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend the removal of fish farms from the migratory routes of wild salmon in order to reduce their exposure to sea lice, which in sufficient numbers kill smolts.

0193-BJARNASON


Submitter: Brian Bjarnason

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Decisions regarding Pacific coast salmon need to be made on the basis of what is best for fish stocks, not foreign companies.

0192-MINARD


Submitter: Jack Minard

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Stock assessment has been underfunded for far too long. It is the only activity that will provide the information upon which to base any action for restoration, rehabilitation or stock enhancement, let alone a fishery.

0191-BRUMMEL


Submitter: Debi Brummel

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: Open net pen fish farms spread filth and disease to wild salmon. The integrity of the Salish Sea and its freshwater sources must be maintained. Predation is not a cause of the decline of Fraser sockeye.

0190-FETTERLEY


Submitter: Shawn Fetterley

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: The major contributing factors for the decline of salmon populations must be identified. In addition, bycatches must be eliminated, fish tracking and forecasting methods must be improved, pressure on returning salmon must be relieved, enforcement must be enhanced, fish farms must be removed from the open ocean, and other communities that have lost their fisheries must be consulted.

0189-NORTHSHOREURBANBEARC


Submitter: Betty Carrington North Shore Urban Be

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2010

Summary: The North Shore Urban Bear Club supports Alexandra Morton and her initiatives.

0182-FOSTER


Submitter: Jenny Foster

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Sep 13, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate recent changes in interactions between Fraser sockeye and their predators, with a special focus on Humboldt squid.

0179-PARSONS


Submitter: Timothy Parsons

Community: Brentwood Bay

Date Submitted: Sep 10, 2010

Summary: The Synthesis of Evidence from the June 15-17, 2010 Workshop on the Decline of Fraser River Sockeye does not offer any firm conclusions on the cause of the Fraser River sockeye decline. In particular, it fails to consider the marine stage of the salmon lifecycle, including the possibility that all Fraser River sockeye stocks occupy quasi-discrete areas in the Gulf of Alaska. If true, this may explain why certain stocks show large variations in abundance based on their tropho-dynamic encounters in the Gulf of Alaska.

0180-PRENTICE


Submitter: John Prentice

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Sep 10, 2010

Summary: It is problematic that the federal government has exempted the aquaculture industry from regulations protecting the marine environment. The commission should recommend that fish farms be removed from the ocean and placed on land in closed containment systems.

0178-SLIB_943727


Submitter: Seton Lake Indian Band

Community: Shalalth

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Chief Larry Casper of the Seton Lake Indian Band.)

The sustainability of Fraser River sockeye requires a true partnership between DFO and First Nations. The commission should recommend that municipalities be prevented from dumping sewage into the Fraser River, that the herring plug fishing method be prohibited, that data about the impact of fish farms on wild stocks be released, and that additional enhancement work be carried out to mitigate de-watering of salmon spawning areas.

0177-SF_580135


Submitter: SCC Fisheries

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Michelle Edwards.)

Broad-based co-operation among stakeholders and respect for the cultural and economic role of salmon is necessary for conserving Fraser River sockeye.

0176-SN_139823


Submitter: Stl'atl'imx Nation

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Sep 9, 2010

Summary: (The attached document was provided to the commission at the Lillooet public forum as part of the submission by Chief Art Adolph.)

Fraser River sockeye, which are integral to the culture and economy of the Stl'atl'imx Nation, can be saved from extinction through a plan that involves sound science and political will.

0175-BIAGI


Submitter: Mark Biagi

Community: Powell River

Date Submitted: Sep 8, 2010

Summary: The problems with the salmon fishery are caused by a number of factors that in combination have created an ever-increasing threat to B.C. salmon populations. These factors include climate change; destruction of both freshwater and marine habitat; the emotional debate around aquaculture; and a lack of resources for research.

0172-MCMILLEN


Submitter: Rachel McMillen

Community: Ladysmith

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2010

Summary: Open net cage fish farms promote disease in wild salmon populations, pollute the sea floor and privatize coastal areas, which prevents Canadians from accessing what is legally theirs. Fish farming, which provides revenue from both licences and employment, can be done just as successfully on land. Land based fish farming would increase employment of fishermen and cannery workers and protect wild salmon.

0174-BROWN


Submitter: Laurence Brown

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Sep 7, 2010

Summary: It is troubling that there appear to be no constitutional instruments for preventing the operation of fish farms. There should be an absolute prohibition of genetically engineered salmon in Canadian waters.

0170-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Sep 6, 2010

Summary: A return to fisheries policies that support smaller fishing boats would sustain more employment per ton of fish and ensure the health of B.C.'s fisheries. Transitioning to land based aquaculture, which has successfully provided humanity with fish protein for centuries, would remove any risk that disease from salmon feedlots are negatively affecting wild stocks. The commission should recommend the implementation of these common sense practices to protect B.C.'s economic and environmental wellbeing.

0171-WICKHAM


Submitter: Eric Wickham

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Sep 6, 2010

Summary: DFO mismanagement and centralization in Vancouver, rather than climate change or other environmental factors, is the cause of the decline of Fraser sockeye. The commission should compare DFO's fishery management practices to those of Alaska, Russia and Japan, where wild salmon stocks are healthy and local fishing industries are booming.

0167-MCNAMEE


Submitter: Sandy McNamee

Community: White Rock

Date Submitted: Sep 2, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend the permanent removal of fish farms on Fraser salmon migration routes in order to protect wild salmon.

Submission List

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0166-RAY


Submitter: Janet Ray

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2010

Summary: The refusal of the aquaculture industry to disclose salmon feedlot disease information is preventing the public, through the provincial government, from determining whether sea lice, IHN virus outbreaks or other factors are causing the decline of wild salmon. The new proposed federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations do not go far enough in guaranteeing the protection of wild salmon. Thorough monitoring and enforceable measures, such as transitioning to land based closed containment feedlots, must be implemented to ensure that salmon feedlots are not adversely affecting wild salmon stocks.

0165-FRANK


Submitter: Don Frank

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Sep 1, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate whether some 2009 sockeye waited until this year to return.

0164-KNOWLES


Submitter: Tricia Knowles

Community: Prince Rupert

Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2010

Summary: Aquaculture represents only one part of the commission's mandate. Individuals who are truly concerned about aquaculture should also be requesting the commission to investigate B.C. wild hatchery output and disease records, as well as the effect of Alaskan ocean ranched salmon on wild stocks and the interception of Fraser sockeye by commercial fisheries in other areas.

0163-PRRC_556017


Submitter: Puntledge River Restoration Committee

Community: Comox

Date Submitted: Aug 28, 2010

Summary: The attached letter from the Puntledge River Restoration Committee outlines how seals have affected salmon stocks in the Puntledge River and suggests that seals may be a cause of the decline of Fraser sockeye. The letter calls on DFO to cull or remove seals to prevent further declines.

0161-COOMBES


Submitter: Benjamin Coombes

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2010

Summary: To determine what is affecting Fraser sockeye, the commission should investigate the conditions that permitted the 2010 return to be so successful rather than what caused the decline in 2009. In addition, the commission should focus on variables such as predation and food availability and whether some 2009 sockeye held in the ocean for an additional year and joined the 2010 return.

0162-PEDERSEN


Submitter: David Pedersen

Community: Tofino

Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the reporting, monitoring and policing of the sport fishery, which likely takes more salmon than it is allotted, as well as the sale of sockeye salmon by First Nations to the general public. The commission should also consider pollution in the Fraser River and competition from ranched salmon as potential causes of the decline of sockeye salmon.

0160-BYE


Submitter: Buffy Bye

Community: Quadra Island

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2010

Summary: Fish farms should not be permitted to dump hazardous waste onto the ocean floor.

0158-PINE


Submitter: Jim Pine

Community: Victoria, B.C.

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2010

Summary: Any examination of salmon stocks on the West Coast must include a serious examination of the wisdom of industrial salmon feedlots and their deleterious impacts on migratory salmon, including disease and parasite transmission.

0159-BRYLA


Submitter: Ken Bryla

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Aug 25, 2010

Summary: Wild salmon are not declining due to salmon farms, but rather due to habitat loss caused by humans.

0157-BROWN


Submitter: Laurence Brown

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Aug 23, 2010

Summary: The commission's terms of reference are unclear on several points. For clarification, the commission should establish the exact jurisdiction of its objectives, certify predators and other species as stakeholders and ensure that First Nations people do not bear a disproportionate burden for conserving sockeye salmon stocks.

0155-SLOBODIAN


Submitter: Sandy Slobodian

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2010

Summary: The relationship between the aquaculture industry and those government offices responsible for regulating their actions must be clarified in order to satisfy public suspicion. In its research and recommendations on the industry, the commission should err on the side of protecting wild salmon.

0154-CRAWFORD


Submitter: Mike Crawford

Community: Penticton

Date Submitted: Aug 21, 2010

Summary: The commission should review the carrying capacity of the ocean, particularly the extent to which ranched salmon, billions of which are released into the ocean every year, are competing with Fraser sockeye for food.

0153-SAUER


Submitter: Jaclyn Sauer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 20, 2010

Summary: Open net-pen fish farming on the migratory routes of wild salmon is responsible for the dramatic decrease of salmon returns. Open net-pen fish farms must be moved on land or banned altogether.

0151-HROMADA


Submitter: Monica Hromada

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 19, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend the permanent removal of fish farms on Fraser salmon migratory routes.

0150-PAISLEY


Submitter: Jeanette Paisley

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Aug 19, 2010

Summary: Farmed salmon should not be labelled organic. Open-net pen fish farms should be discontinued or be moved to closed systems to prevent wild salmon from being contaminated.

0152-PRATT


Submitter: Sheila Pratt

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: Aug 19, 2010

Summary: The views of people with busy lives, many of whom are unaware of the commission, should not be considered less credible than those of the aquaculture industry, which will use significant resources to protect its interests.

0148-BERGHOFER


Submitter: Desmond Berghofer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend the permanent removal of fish farms on Fraser salmon migratory routes.

0149-LARSEN


Submitter: Steen Larsen

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2010

Summary: All open-net pen fish farms on Fraser salmon migratory routes must be permanently removed.

0147-MACNAB


Submitter: Magnus Macnab

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 14, 2010

Summary: Wild salmon stocks are integral to B.C.'s economy, ecology and heritage. Salmon policy must focus on sustainability and preservation. A conservative approach on both open net fish farming and harvest management should be adopted to ensure stock recovery.

0146-MORRISON


Submitter: Michael Morrison

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Aug 12, 2010

Summary: Open net fish farms should not receive organic certification. They should be moved to land-based containment or banned completely.

Submission List

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0145-JUDD


Submitter: Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Aug 12, 2010

Summary: Attached is an extensive list of pesticides present in the environment. The commission should consider the impact of these chemicals on sockeye salmon.

0141-ELCFOLUOV_595671


Submitter: Environmental Law Centre, Faculty of Law, Universi

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 9, 2010

Summary: The attached document, Re-Inventing Rainwater Management by the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Victoria, details the damage caused by stormwater runoff to the Capital Region, including salmon streams. It explains how the temperature, velocity and toxicity of stormwater destroys salmon habitat and kills salmon, and suggests that runoff is the biggest obstacle to habitat restoration. The report offers several recommendations for addressing these and other challenges associated with stormwater runoff.

0142-KEMSHAW


Submitter: Matthew Kemshaw

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Aug 9, 2010

Summary: DFO must seriously consider their looming responsibility for regulating the aquaculture industry. Canadians need to be aware of the Fraser sockeye's sacred roots and its connection to a larger ecology.

0139-YOUNG


Submitter: Cameron Young

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Aug 3, 2010

Summary: Salmon activists should consider the plight of salmon stocks elsewhere in the world. It is Canada's duty to work with other countries to preserve wild salmon from overfishing and disease.

0138-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Aug 3, 2010

Summary: DFO documents (linked to in the submission) indicate that DFO has been aware for over 20 years that navigational and fish health protections must be degraded in order to allow the aquaculture industry to operate in Canada. For this reason, the commission should consider the possibility that aquaculture contamination and disease was a factor in the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River sockeye run. The commission must also grapple with numerous legal and political questions that underscore the complexity and importance of the situation.

0137-RUSSELL


Submitter: Mary Russell

Community: Port Hardy

Date Submitted: Jul 31, 2010

Summary: The commission's terms of reference, which preclude it from assigning blame, will prevent its recommendations from significantly altering either DFO's management philosophies or the destructive behaviour of the aquaculture industry.

0136-PNM_300871


Submitter: PCC Natural Markets

Community: Seattle

Date Submitted: Jul 30, 2010

Summary: The commission should seriously review the role of net-cage salmon farms in the decline of wild sockeye salmon in the Fraser River. Science has shown a clear link between salmon farms and lice infestations of juvenile wild salmon. Salmon farms also encourage the spread of disease, such as bacterial kidney disease and Infectious Hermatopoietic Necrosis, and introduce antibiotics, waste and foreign species into local waters.

0134-MARKS


Submitter: Chris Marks

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jul 29, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the impact of chemicals, disease and parasites from open net pen aquaculture along wild salmon migration routes, as well as the government's role in allowing fish farms to proliferate despite the precautionary principle.

0133-FINCH


Submitter: laura finch

Community: Mill Bay

Date Submitted: Jul 25, 2010

Summary: Open pen fish farms must be removed from the waters of B.C. They must be moved to land, and their agricultural and environmental practices must be held up to independent scrutiny. Documented scientific research proves that open fish farms on migratory routes are responsible for the massive decline of salmon fry.

0131-SEAMAN


Submitter: Ben Seaman

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jul 23, 2010

Summary: Open-net pen farms must be removed from B.C. waters immediately. Data shows the negative effects salmon farms have on wild stocks and the marine ecosystem. Transitioning open net-pens to land-based or bag systems will preserve jobs and protect wild salmon.

0129-RSSEPS_866070


Submitter: Rivers Smith Salmon Ecosystems Planning Society

Community: Comox

Date Submitted: Jul 14, 2010

Summary: The decline of the Fraser River salmon stocks is likely the result of a complex set of factors including changing ocean conditions, habitat loss and water quality in the Fraser watersheds, open net cage aquaculture on the migration routes of juvenile sockeye, and ineffective management regimes. The commission should address the lack of funding for watershed and stewardship groups to implement the Wild Salmon Policy, as well as examine DFO's stock assessment budgets to determine the minimum funding necessary to adequately monitor wild salmon stocks.

0127-KRC_204530


Submitter: Kintama Research Corporation

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Jul 12, 2010

Summary: The attached document analyses acoustic telemetry data to pinpoint the region between the Discovery Passage and Hecate Strait as the location where the 2009 Fraser River run failure likely occurred. It also comments on the most likely reasons why fisheries management has failed to deal with the ongoing major declines in British Columbia salmon populations due to worsening marine survival over the past two decades.

0126-HOLLINGSWORTH


Submitter: John Hollingsworth

Community: Mansons Landing

Date Submitted: Jul 10, 2010

Summary: Open-net fish farms harm the ocean environment in several ways. Closed containment systems must be adopted to preserve wild salmon.

0125-NICHOLL


Submitter: Ruth Nicholl

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jul 9, 2010

Summary: The undue influence of the salmon farming industry on elected governments, the lack of understanding among DFO decision makers about West Coast salmon, and the unwillingness of governments to give credence to the work of Alexandra Morton is concerning. The commission should take a serious and unbiased look at the decline of West Coast salmon and not be influenced by shareholders in the salmon farming industry.

0123-POST(P_968523


Submitter: Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) Project

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jul 7, 2010

Summary: In its report, the commission should recommend that the Government of Canada help ensure the maintenance and extension of the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) Project, an international non-profit program that maintains a large-scale system of sensors anchored along the Pacific Coast seafloor. Data from POST can be directly useful to public agencies that are responsible for ensuring the long-term sustainability of Fraser sockeye and managing the fisheries that impact them.

0124-BRAUER


Submitter: Celia Brauer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jul 9, 2010

Summary: The decline of Fraser River sockeye can be explained through the story of the changing relationship between the sockeye and the inhabitants of the Fraser River watershed. Salmon will return only after their wild space is restored and they are once again made welcome, as they were for millennia, in human communities.

0117-MATHER


Submitter: Allan Mather

Community: Salt Spring Island

Date Submitted: Jul 2, 2010

Summary: Please act now to stop this madness. The evidence is overwhelming. If you don't, we will be selling off an amazingly wonderful resource for the profits of some corporations with no conscience. Salmon farming is a travesty. It is so destructive. It makes me very sad to think we are selling out our future.

0116-KOCH


Submitter: Angela Koch

Community: Oakville

Date Submitted: Jul 2, 2010

Summary: The Port Hardy, Browns Bay and Walcan on Quadra Island, farmed fish processing plants are spewing raw effluent and should never have been allowed to set up at those strategic locations. The two processing plants by Quadra and Campbell River are right at the very bottleneck of where the tides converge and carry everything up with them through the Seymour Narrows and into the northern waters, while the Port Hardy location tides ensure everything comes south. These fish farms are willing to destroy their own stock for a year or two to get rid of wild salmon forever to make billions.

0114-MOUNTAIN


Submitter: Robert Mountain

Community: Alert Bay

Date Submitted: Jul 1, 2010

Summary: My concern with fish farms is with all the various sites that have different size mesh nets. These nets are in the water all year round. With 12 pens per site that means that there are over 800 nets illegally fishing. Smolts and adult salmon are gilled in these nets because they aren’t of sufficient size. Some have said that hundreds are cleaned from the nets, not counting the fish that enter the pens and get eaten. Yet, there is no reporting on this. This needs to be investigated.

0115-JONGKIND


Submitter: mia jongkind

Community: nanaimo

Date Submitted: Jul 1, 2010

Summary: I feel very confused about the fate of the salmon. We need to change priorities and respect the natural way of doing things. We need less human interference and less eating of precious resources so we preserve them.

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0113-WATSON


Submitter: Barbara Watson

Community: Sidney

Date Submitted: Jun 30, 2010

Summary: I am concerned about open net farmed salmon aquaculture in our oceans. The preservation, protection and enhancement of our wild fish have clearly not been the priorities of Fisheries management. It is within the commission’s power to assist in removing at least one of the known causes of salmon fry mortality. If the commission’s findings show that there is any link whatsoever to salmon aquaculture and wild salmon fry mortality; now, in the past, or with the potential for future contamination, I implore you to make a stand now against open net salmon farming in our waterways.

0112-PIHL


Submitter: Eric Pihl

Community: Arlington Heights

Date Submitted: Jun 30, 2010

Summary: It is clear that open net fish farms pose significant risks to natural ecology. The DFO, the provincial government, and the Cohen Commission should protect the environment for future generations by halting all open net operations and only allow closed containment farming until and unless the open net method can be proven to not have a detrimental impact on natural ecology.

0111-SMYTHE


Submitter: Eric Smythe

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 30, 2010

Summary: It is beyond any doubt that net pen fish farms are damaging to wild salmon and also to shellfish under or near to or down current from these fish farms. Fish farming should be confined to closed containment land based fish farms. Wild stocks are too valuable to be put at risk by ocean based net fish farms.

0110-STOUGHTON


Submitter: Eric Stoughton

Community: Black Creek

Date Submitted: Jun 30, 2010

Summary: I am a Salmon Farmer and an avid sport fisherman. I want to ensure a viable fishery of all species for everyone to enjoy but because of my choice of occupation, it’s perceived that I don’t care the sustainability of wild stocks. Perhaps we should delve deeper into the natural causes of wild stock declines like the Salmon Shark. If the Salmon Shark stocks have an increase over the years due to lack of a fishery or other natural predators, won’t the salmon stocks have more pressure put on them, possibly increasing the aforementioned 12-25% run decline?

0109-BRAUER


Submitter: Celia Brauer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 29, 2010

Summary: John Cummins, the Conservative MP for Delta-Richmond East who himself is a commercial fisher, has quickly articulated a number criticisms of the commission’s modus operandi. One of his main concerns is a potential conflict of interest for the six members of the commission’s scientific advisory panel. Should we all see this as a valid concern? What needs to be known is a lot more intuitive than is being admitted, and this is easily learned with an open and intelligent mind. Justice Cohen needs a walk in the real world.

0107-RHODES


Submitter: KEVIN RHODES

Community: KAMLOOPS

Date Submitted: Jun 28, 2010

Summary: At Lytton in July 2006, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans authorized the Canadian National Railway to dump coal from a derailed train directly into the Fraser River. The commission should investigate the effects of coal slurry on fish stocks.

0108-MCELGUNN


Submitter: Barbara McElgunn

Community: Toronto

Date Submitted: Jun 28, 2010

Summary: The roles of hormonally-active synthetic chemicals on reproduction and development at low level exposure have gained research attention, and should be considered as possible causative agents in the decline of salmon populations. This submission links to reports and studies regarding the synergistic effects of pesticides and other hormonally-active chemicals on the ability of salmon to reproduce and thrive.

0106-PHILLIPPE


Submitter: Lucille Phillippe

Community: Saanichton

Date Submitted: Jun 28, 2010

Summary: The provincial and federal governments, with the aid of a few corporate scientists, have managed very well to misinform the public about the dangers of sea lice from open net cage fish farms, which have caused the collapse of the pink salmon run in the Broughton Archipelago. To restore balance to the migration routes of salmon fry, the move to closed containment fish farming must be initiated now.

Contrary to an earlier unwritten agreement, Norwegian fish farms are proliferating in areas where wild salmon migrate in high concentrations. The jobs created by fish farms are insignificant compared to the economic and social costs of the decline of wild stocks. There should be a five year suspension in open net fish farming followed by a review to determine if wild stocks are recovering.

0105-DOHERTY


Submitter: Beau Doherty

Community: Ottawa

Date Submitted: Jun 27, 2010

Summary: It is obvious that the wild salmon population in BC is at risk right now and it is critical that serious action be taken to manage and protect this fishery. If we continue to pillage our ocean in such a wasteful manner, we may be left with a barren ocean with only plankton and algae.

0104-KNUTSEN


Submitter: Candis Knutsen

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 26, 2010

Summary: All fish farms must be removed from Okisollo and Hoskyn Channels and the Broughton Archipelago. This is a necessary emergency measure to protect wild salmon, including Fraser River Sockeye, from sea lice infection from fish farms.

0102-OLNEY


Submitter: Heather Olney

Community: Black Creek

Date Submitted: Jun 25, 2010

Summary: The joint letter by Alexandra Morton and Brian Riddell published on June 24 in the Campbell River Courier Islander was highly inappropriate, as Morton has been granted standing and Riddell is on the commission's Scientific Advisory Panel. The timing of Morton's honourary degree from SFU also appears to be inappropriate, since members of the Scientific Advisory Panel are from that university. Morton's claims about the fish farming industry are incorrect; care is taken by the industry to ensure that no damage is done to the environment.

0103-MORRISHPENG


Submitter: Robert Morrish P.Eng.

Community: West Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 25, 2010

Summary: It is clear that DFO, the provincial government and the Cohen Commission should close open net fish farms and move them inland.

0101-GIBERSON


Submitter: Richelle Giberson

Community: Delta

Date Submitted: Jun 25, 2010

Summary: Conditions on salmon farms have not improved in nearly twenty years. It is clear that salmon farms kill their natural surroundings. The commission should recommend that the planned South Fraser Perimeter Road be realigned to prevent exhaust emissions, heavy metals and toxic liquids from affecting fish habitat along the Fraser River through North Delta and Surrey.

0100-WLSASC_971766


Submitter: Western Log Sort and Salvage Co-op

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 24, 2010

Summary: The poor economics of log salvaging has resulted in a large volume of logs being left to drift in the Fraser River. These logs tend to move with boat wakes and tides, crushing and smothering wetland plants and causing degradation to salmon habitat. In addition, a large amount of sunken wood has accumulated on the bottom of the river, which may be depleting oxygen levels in the surrounding water and harming returning salmon.

0099-NICKEL


Submitter: Derek Nickel

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Jun 24, 2010

Summary: The commission should use research that has been conducted by renowned and trustworthy people such as Dr. Richard Beamish. Flimsy, weak, biased or highly scrutinized work should be ignored. Foreign funding from interest groups, such as the Alaskan fishing industry, should be monitored and regulated.

0098-KEAYS


Submitter: Chelsea Keays

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 24, 2010

Summary: Open net salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago, Discovery Islands and along the west coast of Vancouver Island are contributing to the depletion of wild salmon stocks. Sea lice, in particular, are reducing the survival chances of wild fry. The only viable long-term solution is to move towards closed containment land-based salmon farming.

0093-WYENBERG


Submitter: Jean Wyenberg

Community: Gabriola

Date Submitted: Jun 23, 2010

Summary: Evidence shows that open pen salmon farming harms wild salmon. To protect B.C.'s coastal waters, the commission should recommend that fish farms must be totally contained.

0097-KNOWLES


Submitter: Gary Knowles

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Jun 23, 2010

Summary: The commission's final report should offer practical solutions to conserve Fraser River sockeye. The commission should resist attempts by U.S.-funded groups to make the inquiry another review of net-cage salmon farming.

0096-CHATTERJEE


Submitter: Randy Chatterjee

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 23, 2010

Summary: The commission should consider Alaska, which long ago banned open pen salmon farming due to scientific concerns about the health of their native wild species. Salmon runs and fisheries income in Alaska are both healthy and growing.

0095-CAMPBELL


Submitter: Cathy Campbell

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 23, 2010

Summary: We must save our wild salmon.

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0094-MACLEOD


Submitter: Ken MacLeod

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Jun 23, 2010

Summary: The collapse of the 2009 Fraser River sockeye run can be blamed primarily on overfishing by foreign nations on the high seas. While sea lice from fish farms and disease may have also contributed, the high survival rates of pinks, which do not migrate as far out to sea as sockeye, indicate that overfishing in the Pacific was the main cause. Other problems affecting Fraser sockeye may include climate change, poor management by DFO and overfishing by First Nations.

0091-DAVISON


Submitter: Randy Davison

Community: Edmonds

Date Submitted: Jun 21, 2010

Summary: The commission should look into the responsibility open net salmon farming may have for the decline of wild salmon runs.

0090-VIPOND


Submitter: Don Vipond

Community: Saanichton

Date Submitted: Jun 21, 2010

Summary: Do the commission's terms of reference preclude it from assigning blame? The role of net-cage salmon farms on wild salmon migration routes is highly suspicious and should be closely examined.

0092-PRENTICE


Submitter: john Prentice

Community: Richmond

Date Submitted: Jun 21, 2010

Summary: Norwegian-owned fish farms must be removed from the migratory path of wild salmon smolts immediately.

0089-ZENGER


Submitter: Ruth Zenger

Community: victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 20, 2010

Summary: Farmed salmon operators should be required to honestly answer all questions put to them about the decline in wild stocks. All members of the commission must be impartial.

0085-DAWSON


Submitter: Dan Dawson

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 20, 2010

Summary: The provincial and federal governments, with the aid of a few corporate scientists, have managed very well to misinform the public about the dangers of sea lice from open net cage fish farms, which have caused the collapse of the pink salmon run in the Broughton Archipelago. To restore balance to the waters of the Broughton Archipelago, open net cage fish farming must be stopped now.

0088-BURNS


Submitter: Christopher Burns

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 20, 2010

Summary: The commission should utilize the precautionary approach to fisheries management and allow the science gathered to date, rather than political intervention, to determine management actions.

0087-GYE


Submitter: Kim Gye

Community: Brentwood Bay

Date Submitted: Jun 20, 2010

Summary: It is concerning that scientists currently or recently associated with DFO are investigating the disappearance of Fraser River sockeye. The public needs to be reassured that the commission will be free of influence from those who might suffer from an impartial look into this issue.

0086-SKIPPER


Submitter: Peter Skipper

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Jun 20, 2010

Summary: DFO is failing in its mandate to safeguard wild salmon. The commission should recommend that the Fisheries Research Board become an independent research entity, as well as investigate the possibility that fish farms impact the survival of Fraser River sockeye through the transmission of sea lice and viruses. Also of concern is the lack of transparency by fish farm companies on the measures they employ to control disease.

0084-WILTON


Submitter: ron wilton

Community: Kelowna

Date Submitted: Jun 19, 2010

Summary: Contrary to an earlier unwritten agreement, Norwegian fish farms are proliferating in areas where wild salmon migrate in high concentrations. The jobs created by fish farms are insignificant compared to the economic and social costs of the decline of wild stocks. There should be a five year suspension in fish farming , followed by a review to determine if wild stocks are recovering.

0083-DRAPER


Submitter: Susan Draper

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: The commission should take an ecosystems approach to this issue. Salmon farming must move to land-based closed containment systems. Wild salmon stocks need to be protected and a moratorium should be placed on some Fraser River salmon fisheries.

0082-DRAPER


Submitter: William Draper

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: If salmon farming was done only in closed containers, the sea lice problem would end.

0081-ZENGER


Submitter: Ruth Zenger

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: I am looking forward to this investigation being open to all possibilities for a solution to the salmon crisis so that we can save this vital fish in our waters and thereby not break the food chain that exists on the coast of BC among the animals, as well as the people.

0080-MACISAAC


Submitter: William MacIsaac

Community: canoe

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: Despite their own regulations, DFO has ignored an environmental assessment and allowed dredging, which stirs up contamination, to occur on Shuswap Lake.

0079-CONLEY


Submitter: David Conley

Community: Kanata

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: The attached papers on the British Columbia salmon farming industry and its challenges illustrate how the provincial population has been subjected to a relentless propaganda campaign against salmon farming since 1984.

0078-HENDERSON


Submitter: John Henderson

Community: Salmon Arm

Date Submitted: Jun 18, 2010

Summary: The commission should acknowledge the connection between sea lice from fish farms and the death of many salmon smolts and recommend that salmon not be farmed in open net pens in the ocean.

0077-PORTER


Submitter: Dave Porter

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Jun 17, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the extent to which ocean ranched salmon from Alaska, Russia, Japan and Korea compete with and prey on wild sockeye in the North Pacific.

0076-CAVERS


Submitter: Don Cavers

Community: chase

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: The Norwegian experience with fish farms is being repeated in British Columbia. Salmon should not be farmed in open net pens, especially on migration routes.

0071-BLAISDELL


Submitter: Jill Blaisdell

Community: La Canada

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: Research suggests that the transmission of the infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus from farmed salmon to wild salmon may have been a factor in the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye population. Fish farms should be removed from the ocean environment and relocated on land in order to eliminate water transmission of disease and parasites between British Columbia's farmed and wild fish.

0075-MITCHELL


Submitter: Willie Mitchell

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: Massive numbers of sea lice are causing juvenile fish to die. The commission should recommend that fish farms be moved to closed containment, which will eliminate mortality stemming from sea lice as well as stimulate economic development.

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0074-AGOCS


Submitter: Carol Agocs

Community: London

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: While there may be a number of causal influences on the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon, there is evidence that open net fish farming, in particular, poses hazards for wild salmon and may be a primary factor. A solution may be to replace open-net with closed container aquaculture, which is likely to produce positive outcomes for wild fish stocks, as well as aide the development of an approach to aquaculture that is safer for the environment and for consumers.

0073-FRESOH_670576


Submitter: Fraser River Ecological Society of Hope

Community: Hope

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: Sport fishers deprive salmon of resting spots between Vancouver and Hope, dump lead weights and litter into the Fraser River and often exceed their daily limit. Catch and release fishing is ineffective and should be studied.

0072-BERGHOFER


Submitter: Desmond Berghofer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: The commission should examine the evidence concerning the spread of disease from net-cage salmon to wild salmon, and call on credible sources independent of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, such as Alexandra Morton, to testify.

0066-HANSEN


Submitter: Jens Hansen

Community: Bellingham

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: Stop killing my salmon.

0070-ELWOOD


Submitter: Hugh Elwood

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the interception of sockeye by the commercial fishery of Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska.

0069-SLOTNICK


Submitter: Lauryn Slotnick

Community: Douglaston

Date Submitted: Jun 16, 2010

Summary: Aquaculture in open water is simply far too risky due to contaminants, disease and sea lice. It should be stopped until the time comes when the safety of the food stocks and the wild fish populations can be adequately protected.

0060-SAUNDERS


Submitter: Howard Saunders

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: The scope of the inquiry should be expanded to include an investigation of open ocean survival rates. The commission should also consider that the causes of the decline of Fraser River sockeye beginning in 1992 may be different from what caused the downtown in the 1960s.

0068-BEDNARD


Submitter: Margaret Bednard

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: The move should be made to closed containment aquaculture to prevent the spread of disease and lice to wild salmon.

0067-HALME


Submitter: lana halme

Community: chemainus

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: Fish farming should be conducted in closed containment systems on land.

0065-MCKINLAY


Submitter: Brian McKinlay

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: There is undeniable evidence that salmon aquaculture causes severe declines in wild fish. Sea lice epidemics have been documented to kill wild sockeye smolts at a rate of up to 90%. The commission should take immediate action to address this unacceptable situation.

0064-ENEVOLDSEN


Submitter: David Enevoldsen

Community: San Jose

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: Contaminants in the Fraser River and fish farms are decimating wild salmon stocks. Salmon farms should be moved inland and the contaminants in the Fraser River should be studied and then reduced through strict regulations.

0063-STIRRETT


Submitter: Russell Stirrett

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: The causes of the decline of Fraser River sockeye are no doubt varied, any may include open net aquaculture, pollution and environmental changes. While there is very little that can be done in the short term regarding pollution or environmental changes, the aquaculture business could reduce some pressure on wild salmon stocks by changing to closed containment salmon farms.

0062-SMITH


Submitter: Kerri Smith

Community: Ottawa

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: All aspects of the decline of Fraser River sockeye should be studied carefully, and there are many stakeholders who should have an opportunity to be part of the discussion. Losing a resource as invaluable as Fraser River sockeye would have devastating economic and ecological consequences.

0061-BILSKER


Submitter: Sheldon Bilsker

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 15, 2010

Summary: Open net fish farms produce unhealthy fish and negatively affect migrating wild fish, and must be removed from the ocean. The appearance of potential conflicts of interest in the commission is disturbing.

0059-HEAVENOR


Submitter: Michael Heavenor

Community: Campbell River

Date Submitted: Jun 10, 2010

Summary: The introduction of 1.5 billion enhanced salmon per year from Alaskan salmon ranches, into the Gulf of Alaska, increases the competition, and depletes the available food for non-enhanced salmon from British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, which perish prior to returning to their home rivers. The Gulf of Alaska has reached critical mass.

0054-MACNEIL


Submitter: Pauline Mac Neil

Community: Courtenay

Date Submitted: Jun 4, 2010

Summary: Research by the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Farms suggests that the transmission of the infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus from farmed salmon to wild salmon may have been a factor in the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye in 2009. Accordingly, fish farms should be removed from the ocean environment and relocated on land in order to eliminate water transmission of disease and parasites between British Columbia's farmed and wild fish.

0053-WOODWORTH


Submitter: Sabra Woodworth

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Jun 3, 2010

Summary: Provincial authorities appear to have failed to implement the recommendations of the 2000 and 2004 reports of the Auditor General of Canada. Now that the federal government is set to resume management of the aquaculture industry, the precautionary principle must be invoked to stop further risk to wild salmon on their migratory routes by moving fish farms onto land.

0052-MACISAAC


Submitter: William MacIsaac

Community: SALMON ARM

Date Submitted: Jun 2, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate the dispersal of contaminants and pollution into Shuswap Lake around Canoe Creek and Salmon River, a salmon spawning area.

0051-FRAZER


Submitter: Neil Frazer

Community: Honolulu

Date Submitted: May 29, 2010

Summary: The surprise associated with the non-appearance of the 2009 Fraser sockeye has a proximal cause that may never be known and an ultimate cause that has been apparent to the best Canadian fisheries research scientists for many years. The ultimate cause is described in the attached paper by Hutchings, Walters and Haedrich, which suggests that nonscience influences can interfere with the dissemination of scientific information and the conduct of science in Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

0050-CLARK


Submitter: Dale Clark

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: May 24, 2010

Summary: Fish farms along Fraser River sockeye salmon migration routes are dumping highly concentrated amounts of livestock waste, feces and medication directly into the surrounding environment. This waste must be contained immediately.

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0049-DANLOCK


Submitter: Tyrone Danlock

Community: port Alberni

Date Submitted: May 22, 2010

Summary: Causes for the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon may include waste from pulp mills, such as sodium hydroxide and powdered tree bark, and overfishing by First Nations.

0046-KINCH


Submitter: Ron Kinch

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: May 18, 2010

Summary: DFO should implement policies that promote sustainable aquaculture using technologies developed by Canadian entrepreneurs.

0044-PARSONS


Submitter: Timothy R. Parsons

Community: Brentwood Bay

Date Submitted: May 13, 2010

Summary: The attached submission is a brief account of how phytoplankton production and the size of primary producers may affect the production of salmon in the Gulf of Alaska.

0043-SKETCHLEY


Submitter: Keith H. Sketchley

Community: Victoria

Date Submitted: May 7, 2010

Summary: This submission discusses methods of evaluating submissions, points to the need for data and provides an example of a promising project, discusses the food-finding nature of animate objects, and points to studies showing a probable reason for variation in salmon populations over time.

0042-MCKAY


Submitter: Gilbert McKay

Community: Coldstream

Date Submitted: May 5, 2010

Summary: The decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon is due to predation by harbour seals, which are growing rampant in the Gulf of Georgia and the Fraser River. Salmon stocks will not recover until the seals are culled.

0040-CLARK


Submitter: Dale Clark

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: May 2, 2010

Summary: The shortfall witnessed in the 2009 Fraser sockeye salmon run was a localized issue caused by open pen fish farms. The solution is fish farm containment. Environmental matters are multi-jurisdictional and should include community feedback.

0039-ALBERT


Submitter: Darrell Albert

Community: Mission

Date Submitted: May 1, 2010

Summary: The disappearance of salmon stocks may be due to the illegal sale of salmon by First Nations.

0041-EMBERLEY


Submitter: Jack Emberley

Community: Maple Ridge

Date Submitted: May 4, 2010

Summary: The survival of Fraser River salmonids is, in part, dependent upon the collaborative efforts of the public, Environment Canada (EC) and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). Unfortunately, the public partner is being short-changed, as was demonstrated by EC and DFO's ineffective investigation and response to the May 2009 fish kill in the North Alouette River.

0038-NOLAN


Submitter: lisa nolan

Community: white rock

Date Submitted: Apr 27, 2010

Summary: The decline of Pacific salmon is a multifaceted and international issue. Addressing it may require a ban on commercial salmon fishing enforced by heavy fines for violators. The commission should investigate issues such as underwater sound levels, availability of salmon food sources, urban growth in southern B.C., stream and river diversion, fish farming and sea lice.

0036-ROBERTSON


Submitter: Randy Robertson

Community: Nanaimo

Date Submitted: Apr 25, 2010

Summary: The introduction of freshwater krill into the Shuswap and other lakes as a food source for smolts backfired. The krill ate the phyto- and zooplankton normally consumed by the smolts, thereby weakening them prior to their journey down the Fraser River.

0034-WOODWORTH


Submitter: Sabra Woodworth

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 20, 2010

Summary: Given the extensive environmental consequences of open net-cage fish farming, Canada – like the United States federal government – should consider implementing a set of uniform, national standards to regulate aquaculture with minimal damage to the environment.

0035-RITCHIE


Submitter: William J.S. Ritchie

Community: Gibbons

Date Submitted: Apr 20, 2010

Summary: Evidence dating back to the 1990s shows that sea lice from open cage salmon farming decimate local indigenous salmonid populations. The commission should focus on this and other issues related to fish farming, such as the escape of Atlantic salmon.

0031-TYLER


Submitter: Tim Tyler

Community: Coquitlam

Date Submitted: Apr 19, 2010

Summary: The commission should recommend that legislation be passed to allow private prosecutions under the Fisheries Act to proceed. Currently, the Act often goes unenforced, leading to disrespect for the law and moral justification for breaking it, as demonstrated by the regular dumping of deleterious substances in the Coquitlam River.

0030-DONNELLY


Submitter: Wayne Donnelly

Community: Edmonton

Date Submitted: Apr 16, 2010

Summary: Causes of the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon may include Parvicapsula infection, prespawning-mortality, a lack of understanding among fisheries managers of cyclic dominance and exposure to sewage. Four recommendations are offered to address these issues.

0026-JOVER


Submitter: Henri Jover

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 13, 2010

Summary: The commission should investigate thoroughly the seriousness of the situation and come to an honest assessment of the cause of the decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River. To ensure that the research and scientific evidence before us is heard, funding for representing parties should be covered by the government.

0023-DALE


Submitter: Norman Dale

Community: Prince George

Date Submitted: Apr 9, 2010

Summary: The creation of a commission to investigate three poor years of sockeye returns is a narrow public policy response. To be effective, the commission should be reoriented and reorganized to grapple with the full spectrum of marine ecological uncertainties and instability that has been afflicting the entire coast.

0024-KRAUSE


Submitter: Vivian Krause

Community: North Vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 9, 2010

Summary: Claims that sea lice from salmon farms cause high mortality among wild juvenile salmon or that farmed salmon contain harmful levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are false. The widely-cited studies making these claims contain serious flaws, and were funded by organizations that have been paid to promote the consumption of wild salmon.

0022-TFRRE_200317


Submitter: The Fraser River RIpple Effect

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 6, 2010

Summary: Open pen fish farms on wild salmon migration routes are a factor in the decline of wild stocks. Removing farms from the wild salmon narrows is imperative.

0020-JUDD


Submitter: Gordon/Priscilla Judd

Community: Lumby

Date Submitted: Apr 4, 2010

Summary: The decline of Fraser River sockeye is a human and political problem, not a natural one. Collective action is necessary to remove obstacles to sockeye salmon survival, which include fish farms on our coastal shores, watershed logging, the use of pesticides that leech into the Fraser River, over-fishing, and misguided Right to Farm legislation.

0019-SORS_292843


Submitter: SAVE OUR RIVERS SOCIETY

Community: VANCOUVER

Date Submitted: Apr 2, 2010

Summary: Canadian governments, federal and provincial are actively subverting this inquiry.

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0018-BRAUER


Submitter: Celia Brauer

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Apr 1, 2010

Summary: The commission should make room in or alongside its formal process for those individuals and groups who will not formally apply for legal standing yet have information and evidence that should be in the public domain. Their interest and energy will make the commission's work more comprehensive, more influential, more enduring and ultimately more successful.

0017-HEALEY


Submitter: Michael Healey

Community: Peachland

Date Submitted: Apr 1, 2010

Summary: The attached paper describes attributes of Pacific salmon that make the species resilient and proposes an approach to fishery management that would sustain rather than undermine the species' natural resilience.

0016-STOCK


Submitter: Lloyd Stock

Community: Lillooet

Date Submitted: Mar 31, 2010

Summary: The environmental degradation of the Fraser River, caused by pollution and increased water temperatures, has resulted in additional stress on fish.

0012-GENDRON


Submitter: Damien Gendron

Community: Burnaby

Date Submitted: Mar 29, 2010

Summary: The commission should use any and all means at its disposal to get to the bottom of the decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River. Funding for scientific research should be put in place to ensure that the inquiry is thorough.

0011-NOBLE


Submitter: Richard Noble

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Mar 29, 2010

Summary: The deteriorating sockeye dilemma can be resolved by determining where along their migration path the fish are disappearing. From spawning grounds to the open ocean, salmon contend with numerous factors affecting their survival. Determining which factors are having the greatest impact will lead to appropriate solutions.

0010-ELLIOTT


Submitter: W.J. (Jack) Elliott

Community: Magrath

Date Submitted: Mar 26, 2010

Summary: The attached email correspondence highlights DFO's inability to effectively manage and protect native pacific coast salmon, DFO's lack of sufficient baseline research for such protection and management and DFO's inability to communicate with taxpayers about how public moneys have been spent in this area.

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Submitter: Kevin Bonell

Community: Kamloops

Date Submitted: Mar 24, 2010

Summary: A multi-factorial issue, the main reason for the decline of wild salmon is fish farms. It is imperative that they be fully self contained or not allowed to operate.

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Submitter: Barbara Kovacs

Community: Chilliwack

Date Submitted: Mar 24, 2010

Summary: The removal of lead-based paint from the Lions Gate Bridge in 2005 may have released toxins that affected salmon returning to the Fraser River. An investigation should be conducted into the amount of lead and other toxins in these salmon.

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Submitter: Semiahmoo First Nation

Community: Surrey

Date Submitted: Mar 24, 2010

Summary: Climate change, dewatering and habitat destruction have all combined to alienate aboriginal people from their main food source and jeopardized their inherent right to food and food security. In the case of the Semiahmoo First Nation, the degradation of salmon runs returning to Boundary Bay has obliged them to obtain food fish from their tribal neighbours resident on the Fraser River main stem.

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Submitter: Kirsty MacKenzie

Community: Vancouver

Date Submitted: Mar 24, 2010

Summary: In its review of Department of Fisheries and Oceans policies and practices, the commission should be guided by the principle that the health of wild salmon communities is our collective responsibility and top priority. The continued well-being of Fraser River sockeye salmon is a prerequisite to a sustainable fishery, and conservation objectives must not be balanced against short-term economic gain.

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Submitter: laura dupont

Community: port coquitlam

Date Submitted: Mar 24, 2010

Summary: Wild salmon are vital for our First Nations, our food web and our environment, and must be preserved.

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Submitter: Shuswap Lake Coalition

Community: Chase

Date Submitted: Mar 23, 2010

Summary: Grey water dumping and property development on the Mara and Shuswap Lakes is causing the destruction of sockeye salmon birthing grounds, and should be investigated by the commission as a cause of the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon.

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