HELP SAVE THE WILD PACIFIC SALMON...sign Alexandra Morton's petition to save BCs wild salmon

On March 30th this year we went to Port Townsend to the first Salish Sea Marine Naturalist Association meeting. This meeting allowed Canadian and American whale watching naturalists and scientists working in the Salish Sea, important habitat for the Endangered Southern Resident killer whale community (Endangered Species Act USA, Species At Risk Act Canada), to meet and discuss our work in this wonderful place. We were fortunate enough to learn the most recent findings from scientists studying the Southern Resident killer whale community and what these findings indicated we need to do to help this population to avoid further decline.

Members of the Endangered Southern Resident killer whale pod, J pod

The most emphasized issue in these discussions was the need to save the wild salmon stocks; the Southern Resident killer whales' main source of food. One of the presenters, a veterinarian, put it nicely...just as with your pet dog or cat, if they are well fed they should be able to deal with any other stress. If the Southern Residents have salmon they will better withstand stresses such as acoustic disturbances and toxins.



So what do we need to do? We need to seriously consider what we are doing about the salmon stocks of the Pacific coast in, not just BC, but all of North America. Just like the killer whales salmon see no boundaries so we need to work together, just as we came together at the Transboundary Workshop in March, to help the salmon.

Chinook salmon...the most important food of the Southern Resident killer whales

One of the most pressing issues related to saving the wild salmon stocks is the impact the commercial salmon farms have on wild fish. Check out and sign this petition from Alexandra Morton to make the BC government act more responsibly in their role to protect this Endangered (under SARA) whale's food...the wild Pacific Salmon!


Newspaper article in the Island Courier
Alexandra Morton's website Adopt-A-Fry

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