Upper river dropping away now but lower river Ross to Monmouth still not peaked yet.  River reached over 4 metres at Hereford.  One has to fear for redds in the main river and some of the tributaries and with all blockages/obstructions now removed so will all the gravel from the rock based areas be pushed out by such a sudden high spate..  We believe huge amount of damage has been done in this way. Just how many precious eggs have been lost I wonder, how many spawning gravels, how many juveniles destroyed too. Are there any more fish to come as backup.  Nothing to suggest it so so far but no doubt others will have a different agenda.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nice pike below - anyone know who the angler is please.

Hello

See below more from Aexandra Morton and the plight of BC salmon.  Click onto the link in the email and then onto one of the films on the right of the page.

This takes you to a webpage  -- CALLING FROM THE COAST.   On there are aload of wildlife films from BC ranging from bears to eagles to salmon.  Enough to keep you occupied, if your interested in that kind of wildlife film, all over the Xmas break and away from the dross you might otherwise have to watch.
Could be worth a small subscription too.  Wish someone would do it here.
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Hello

As most of you know, I have worked hard to communicate the impact of raising salmon in feedlots among wild salmon through science, the law, government process and activism with you.  We have become a great team, we have held the industry back from expanding, but Canada is rewriting its laws so quickly we will loose ground next year. 

This week Canada and Mexico voted against the recommendation by a NAFTA commission that Canada's record on protection of wild salmon from farmed salmon be reviewed.  The U.S. voted for the audit. Here is the Press Release. This is a very disappointing turn of events, another door slammed shut to resolving this issue.

I am still awaiting the outcome of my legal challenge with Ecojustice last June, whether the industry can continue transferring diseased salmon into their ocean pens, which is pure biological madness, the courts have not made a decision.

In honour of all that we have done to resolve this issue, it is now time to speak to the people behind farmed salmon, the consumer.  Step one is a series of ads designed by a top ad firm.  $60,000 have been pledged by two businessmen if I can raise the rest.  I can see it is time this industry no longer be allowed to exist alone in the world of consumer advertising.  Effective ads cost a lot of money, there is no way around this. This is not a matter of pulling on gumboots, or walking shoes. Please consider donating, no matter how small and "sharing" and tweeting my blog post to your friends who are concerned about the food they eat, the whales dying on the BC coast and their children's future.  Please visit my blog to see the first image and to donate.
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2014/12/time-t.html

Thank you all, I am wishing you a warm holiday season during the long dark nights of this time of year.  Thank you all for sticking with me and wild salmon on this intractable issue. We cannot give up now!

If you prefer to donate by mail:

Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society

Box 399

Sointula, BC V0N 3E0

Godspeed to us in our endeavor to protect the salmon - who feeds everyone and everything lucky enough to exist in their habitat.

Don't forget to check out my website as well AlexandraMorton.ca

Alex

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