Images from Open Pen Aquaculture
Aerial photo of a typical floating open-pen net
system
http://www.clf.org/NEON/0112_aquaculture.htm
close-up of tote of morts (dead farmed fish) with maggots.
(Heritage Aquaculture site, Simoom Sound, Aug. 1998) http://www.georgiastrait.org/Articles2001/salmonlegpic05-06.htm
Refuse left behind at inactive fish farm. (Jervis
Inlet, Aug. 1999)
http://www.georgiastrait.org/Articles2001/salmonlegpic07-08.htm
Dead seal, found on Quadra Island, near several fish farms,
November 2000. Large holes appear to be from bullets http://www.georgiastrait.org/Articles2001/salmonlegpic011.htm
Members of the Ahousat First Nation visit one of
Pacific National Acquaculture's fish farms to inspect thousands
of salmon that have died and floated to the surface.
http://www.globeandmail.com/series/apartheid/stories/20011119-3.html
Juvenile pink smolt heavily infested with adult
and immature sea lice. Photo by Alexandra Morton.
http://www.georgiastrait.org/Articles2001/salmonlegpic03.htm
With this job, he's home every night of the year,
and every weekend too. But like the 60 other Ahousat residents
who work on the farms and in a new Tofino plant that processes
their harvest, Frank also wonders if he has betrayed his heritage
by embracing the newest offer from the white man's world - a world
that has already devoured much of their culture as well as the
forests and, poignantly, wild salmon they once relied on.
http://www.globeandmail.com/series/apartheid/stories/20011119-3.html
Bacterial mat(aquamanure), caused by excessive waste deposition,
indicating seriously degraded conditions under a farm.
http://www.clf.org/NEON/0112_aquaculture.htm
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