AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 29, 2005 | | CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD - lail Bag Fisheries minister just doesn’t get it Dear Sir: Fisheries Minister - Regan’ s reply to Mary Dalen in the June 22 Terrace Standard is proof positive that nothing less then a big voting hammer is going ‘to be needed to tune up the federal liberals in regard to northwest B.C.’s insistence for a healthy future for - Skeena wild salmon. -Mr..Regan would have us believe there i is : - ; some scientific doubt that salmon farms are not causal to declines in native wild salmon. 7 ‘Which i is utter nonsense — everywhere. in the world where farm salmon and wild salmon " have been asked to coexist wild salmon have suffered dramatically. Dr. Allan Gottesfeld, a well respected re- —_ searcher who has worked on this issue for years, said at the May 7 Salmon Summit in “* “ Terrace. ~ the science is in, and it’ s conclu- sive — open net fish farms kill wild salmon. “vs... -Yes, there are biostitutes i in the employ of -. eg ‘DFO and thé farmed salmon industry who — “» _* will continue disputing the. causal relation- ship between salmon farms and the decline ° of wild: salmon. History tells us they will keep making these. claims “until the wild salmon are gone. Just like there were “scientists” telling us there were no causal relationships between cigarettes and lung cancer for decades. Geoff _ ~ Regan is doing what so many fisheries min- isters have done over the years — insisting that any assertion, by any .scientist, consti- tutes a lack‘of scientific consensus. : . His job is to protect the public’s interest in healthy, diverse and abundant wild salm- ‘on, not the interests‘of fish farmers. What - B.C. voters need to remember is that DFO is the institution that managed the richest fish- . Dear Sir: . ‘Thave a few. things to say. . regarding the fire on Terrace — Mountain started by the “14- year-old from Kitwanga.” Well, I was there ‘with three of my friends, him included. Firstly, you made it sound. like we all were involved. 4 “Terrace firefighter, Peter ‘Weeber, who was first Oni the scene, ‘said the youths were for their Tower Radio * playing with matches.” ; _ That is quite. off. It. was just one of ‘the youths, and ‘it. was an orange lighter. ‘He wasn’t playing with the lighter either. He just walked up to one single tree and set the old man’s beard on fire. “I’m sure he thought that it would just go out, but it “didn’t. He was super apolo- “geti® and he'didn’t mean to. It was a mistake. Ts. cone Pere , CENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL would like to thank the following businesses. enerous donations to the _’ Auction held on May 14, 2005. A&W ¢ Bandstra Transportation Body Essence ® Canadian Tire - _ Checker’s Pizza © City of Terrace . . Don Diego’s ¢ Encore Restaurant. "Inland Kenworth/Parker Pacific » Northcoast Health & Fitness Pampered Chef/Carla MacDonald _. River Industries © Scotiabank Schneider's Popcorn/Terry Bedwell - Shi Clothing Inc. ¢ Sonny’s Collectables Stamping Up/Jaime Spyksma / ery resource in human history, Atlantic Cod, into economic extinction, and ‘near biologi- cal extinction. Oh yes, I seem to remember DFO scien- tists telling us then that they were managing the resource to the highest “scientific” stan- dards. When will we stop believing these . corrupted corporate shills and insist that we, as salmon dependent communities, will sim- ply remove them from office if they don’t shut their mouths, and open up there ears to _ the vast majority of residents on B.C.’s coast who want rid of these polluting, dangerous pits of disease known as salmon farms. The federal liberals will be going into an election soon, and if they think that BC vot- ers won’t hand them their butts in a sling on» this-issue, then they should talk to the BC liberals, who recently learned their lesson the hard way..- : Thank God we in the northwest have an. | MP who understands this issue, and speaks out on it. ~~ It’s up to Skeena First Nations, our com- “munities and all friends of wild Skeena. salmon to make it clear that anyone plac- ‘ing our salmon at risk will be faced with the wrath of the voters. . While we all may live in this beautiful -valley for different reasons, we-all share one thing — we understand that abundant wild © salmon are an-integral part of who we. are, and we all will be much poorer if wild salm- on are damaged by a small numberof multi- | national companies, supported by DFO, who | simply seem unable to “get it”. | Friends of Wild Salmon about the fire ~~ Also, I wouldn’t use the’. word ° ‘sheepish. an ~ We weren’t embarassed. 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