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Greetings: Mayor Scott and then Clarence Nelson, speaking for the city PR and
the Tsimshian Nations respectively. An
aside: Note the dichotomy white
and native; colonist and 1st nations; this was followed throughout
forum—the presentations were mainly industry or government but ‘the other
side’ (moities)
was able to speak too (David Lane, John Volpe) Each speaker was
given a ‘gift’ of local native art print – as if the uniqueness or memory was
not the colonist splendor but indigenous vision |
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Clarence Nelson Tsimshian Hereditary chief Gitwilgiots (People of the Kelp) see Allied Tribes page for list Welcome: “economic benefits look good” but ‘we want to know more
about the risks’. |
SPEAKERS—
Hopefully the
presentations will eventually show up on the PR Library WWW page given to the forum; many
speakers used computer presentations so it will not be difficult
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Theme: Balancing
act: resource conservation (wild fishery) against economic sustainability
fish farms New Info: an EA (federal Environmental Assessment) will ‘kick in’ for
all new sites from March
2001 (this
link is less certain about federal EA than speaker was) |
DFO policy
Mark Burgham (?) |
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Top MAFF bureaucrat; presentation was dull, but he became enlivened (feisty?) with some of the questions later, KEY: “biggest constraint” (to aquaculture
in BC) “is access to new sites” Aquaculture
policy review in Fall 2001 -- “that’s now” |
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Bud Graham MAFF contact
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Relocations story
DID I hear
this right?:
While there is a moratorium and only 121 licences have been issued there
appears to be 2 “waves” of re-siting netpens. The first phase of 11 has been
nearly finished, but ‘the second wave’ of 40 relocations may have just begun. Kitasoo
was part of the first wave relocations, but one may expect many more along the
North and Central Coasts even before the official moratorium is lifted.
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BCAL is one stop
window? As in shellfish
tenures will handle license, tenure and navigable waters paperwork;
presumably from Nanaimo office. |
Some of
these presentations were sleep inducing-- |
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Authority to
grant tenure seemed to be with BCAL – but their WWW site not
updated. |
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Siting Fish
Farms Mind boggling details – all kinds of irrelevant (to north coast) considerations (x meters from a clam bed—(but all north coast closed to shellfish—thus no ‘official’ clam beds?) No zoning in place; nor any Integrated coastal zone management (CZM) plans Most ambiguous:no salmon farm within 1 Km from
salmon bearing ‘stream’ or was it “significant” salmon stream? And what
about the SKEENA? 1KM? |
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While Liberal MAFF cabinet Minister
van Dongen was present—even said a few words; his presentation was read and
lifeless. My recollection, like the photo of him here, is very blurred. Still
he did once run a dairy farm, so is perhaps more like us (commoners) than most other
politicians.
Quack or Genius??This guy has a PhD in physics. The connection to farmed salmon eludes me, but his forte seemed to be the chemistry of sediments (and soils?) His thesis seemed to be that waste
from fish farms could be accurately monitored using a few chemical signals as
surrogates for ecosystem health: thus sulfides were argued to be reliable
guide to how well “assimilative capacity” of sediment was handling this ‘sewage’. The full
article available as PDF online—huge
file 4,035KB |
Dr. Ken
Brooks |
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The key critique was voiced by much published
scientist Dr John Volpe: until this data is published in a refereed scientific journal
it does not carry credibility.
Escaped Atlantic SalmonAn
industry in denial: Atlantics
won’t escape; well they live; well they won’t spawn; well juveniles won’t survive; Dr
Volpe did the work that proved latter 2 assertions were false. (Here is a short newspaper
article describing his work; here is a longer PDF file
with more detail) This
was one of best presentations; good graphics and easy to listen to. Had one
of largest audiences too. |
Dr John
Volpe now at UA
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This ends part
one; Saturdays meeting will be covered here.
Written 10/28/01