: CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD ee Le The Mail B Salmon farms are a danger | Dear Sir: - I’m deeply disappointed.to hear that the Kitkatla band - ‘has succumbed to the Omega Salmon Group's offer of. fish farm jobs. This is a strategy that the Dutch and Nor- , wegian mullinational corporations of the aquaculture in- dustry have applied to remote coastal villages in Scan- dinavia, Scotland and Chile. With extremely high unem- ~splayment; and few other economic opportunities avail-/ ~-. able, these villages find it difficult not to ignore the 20+, >. year history of environmental disasters which continue t7-' - plague this industry, =. 7 » + Thave to’ wonder if anyone in Kitkatla watched t ~ recent. CBC “Disclosure” documentary which show clearly the devastating effect that the transfer of sea Ife ‘from ‘floating fish pens in the Broughton Archipelago bd “onthe returns of pink salmon last fall. -. “of-adult-pink salmon. "When her predictions were borne out and onl 10 per - cent of the expected adults returned to spawn, PC con- -tinued to downplay the role of the farms and t} Sea lice “transfer. Under pressure from the Pacific Fiseries Re- ‘= -souree-Conservation Council, they finally ac fowledged the link between the collapse of the runs Ad the sea lice ‘The council proposed the fallowing offll farms in -s the’ Broughton Archipelago during the critif! smolt mi- _ gration to ensure the survival of enough fh to rebuild “-sthe stocks. f | --s./Again, FOC dragged their feet and | fish farms in . ‘the*area-began restocking with Atlantic flmon. Finally, ~