permaculture

["Frances and David" <fdnokes@hotmail.com>]

Facebookyes, it is so important to get across the messages of connection...
and the wonderful way that nature feeds all...
frances

From: Dianne Hunchuk 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:14 PM
To: Comox Valley Council of Canadians 
Subject: [Comox Valley Council of Canadians] the DANGERS of Underwater 
Factory Farming... "...

                  Dianne Hunchuk posted in Comox Valley Council of Canadians
                       Dianne Hunchuk 12:13pm Mar 6  
                        the DANGERS of Underwater Factory Farming... " Salmon 
are the vehicle by which the biological riches of the North Pacific are 
spread to the land. Swimming inland, often hundreds of miles, to spawn and 
die, their decomposing bodies provide the nutrients that nourish stands of 
millennial Sitka spruce, red cedar, and Douglas fir (trees along salmon 
streams grow three times as fast as their inland counterparts). The entire 
food chain depends on these fish: Salmon provide 90 percent of the nitrogen 
in Alaskan brown bears' diets, and even deer gnaw on their spawned-out 
carcasses. As long-term strategies go, killing off the wild salmon of the 
Pacific Northwest is about as forward-thinking as deliberately infecting the 
goose that laid the golden egg with avian flu. The provincial government 
considers wild salmon, and independent fishermen, an impediment to 
development. A farsighted government bent on resource extraction might adopt 
a long-term strategy that favors policies that promote salmon aquaculture, to 
the detriment of the wild stocks." 
.http://www.pacificwild.org/site/related_news/1241664585.html
                             Pacific Wild - Wildlife Conservation on Canada's 
Pacific Coast - British Columbia - The Trouble with www.pacificwild.org 

                              By Taras Grescoe, Photographs: Rob Howard, 
Illustration: Heather Jones May 2009, Best Life 
                       
                 

           
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