It’s about farmed salmon… don’t eat it!

Almost everywhere I go off-island, most folks don’t seem to have heard that farmed salmon are a problem. A huge problem. Not just for the killer whales (why would you want to deplete their salmon stocks on purpose?!?) but for humans as well.

One of the more articulate folks in the farmed salmon discussion campaigning against it is Alexandra Morton who lives on the northern end of Vancouver Island. She’s been studying killer whales there since the ’80s, and she’s in touch with the dangers of farmed salmon. 

Here’s a write up of her campaign in the New York Times, and here’s her website. This is stuff you oughta know, both for saving the killer whales AND saving the humans (whom I like, ’cause they’re my species….)

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