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Jeanie Orr
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Michelle McConnell
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9: 17 AM
Jeanie Orr
FW: finfish net pen issues
GMA 2961 - SMP Public comment
-----Original Message-----
From: AI Scalf
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:04 AM
To: Michelle McConnell
Subject: FW: finfish net pen issues
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Willing [mailto:ecoplace@olympus.net]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 200910:53 PM
To: AI Scalf
Subject: finfish net pen issues
Dear Mr. Scalf: Other issues aside, I would urge that the ban on net
pen rearing be maintained in the SMP. Based on the biologic
disasters in Norway, Scotland and British Columbia it is obvious to a
thinking person that such industrial farming is a killer in several
ways. If you need some quick reading merely google some of the furor
going on north of our border. At least down here the doors to
meetings have not been barred.
We have hammered the salmon species so hard from every direction
while giving lip service to the notion of preserving them, the least
we could do is not grant a foot hold to the sea lice and viruses that
are devastating wild fish in the above mentioned countries. It seems
a given that such pestilence is concomitant with aquaculture. Indeed,
the project in Rich passage some years ago failed due to losses from
sea lice infestations, and that was without the viral problems of
today. Proponents of such industry will claim that" medicines"
given to the fish will control the pathogens, so far all treatments
have lost efficacy very rapidly and pose significant toxicity issues
of their own. Were we not once concerned with water quality?
Thank you for you attention to this matter and for your often un-
thanked efforts on behalf of the community.
Sincerely, Stephen Willing
Marrowstone Island
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