Pink salmon plentiful because farms fallow
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Updated: November 05, 2009 4:46 PM
Editor, The News:
Re: Usual suspects in the salmon crisis (B.C. Views, Oct. 28).
Tom Fletcher describes my opposition to salmon farms and run-of-river power projects as “bunk.” I realize that he is a right-winger with a right-wing paper but surely that doesn’t exempt him from telling the whole truth.
Regarding fish farms, does he not know that the run of pinks that was abundant this year passed fallowed fish farms when they migrated as smolts, and that this return confirms Alexandra Morton’s findings – that this was an experiment that proved the point of every private scientist who has examined this issue?
Regarding run-of-river, how can he ignore that fact that the bulk of the private power is to be exported because it’s produced when BC Hydro doesn’t need it? How can BC Hydro give take-or-pay contracts with private power companies at double the amount they can sell it for on the export market?
Rafe Mair
Lions Bay
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