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Send your protest to wild salmon biggest enemy, Helga Pedersen!
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Minister Helga Pedersen of the Coastal&Fishery Department, is trying to stop the plans for strict regulations of salmon harvest at sea. In spite of an common agreement based on proven facts, of scientists, The Environmental Departments and international and national organisations, the minister Helga Pedersen due to close and personal relations with commercial fishing interest, wants to let the slaughter at sea continue!
There are 1300 nets fishermen at sea and they catch 50-70% of all returning wild salmon. Are they going to be allowed to carry on, while over 100.000 game anglers and river owners have accepted strict regulations in rivers, and just sit and observe the strains of wild salmon be wiped out?!!
Send your personal protest to the responsible minister
Helga Pedersen
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Norway, the world's most dangerous place for Atlantic Salmon!
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Now Norway is the only nation continuing mixed stock netting for salmon!
Scientific advice for years is neglected in Norway, while other nations showed their responsibility and stopped the netting.
Continuous mixed stock netting and poor regulation of the expansive farmed salmon industry, which is on their way to extinct wild salmon not only in Norway, but in North America too, Norway is set in a damaging focus throughout the world.
Help save the atlantic salmon. Signatures will be sent to the Norwegian government to help it decide immediate action to save the atlantic salmon: Save the wild salmon!
Here is Orri Vigfússon's and NASF's open letter to the Norwegian Government:
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Sea lice wipe out native salmon in British Columbia!
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A current report in Science, blame the norwegian owned salmon farms for bringing native salmon stocks to extinction!
Fisheries ecologists and scientist, after studying the conditions on the Broughton Archipelago in BC, claim that 80% of the native pink salmon population has been decimated. This because of dense sea lice concentrations by the numerous salmon farms in the area.
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C&R only alternative to total stop of river fishing?
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Vacant salmon beats next season due to spin- and baitfishing prohibited?
The debate is now hot in many river owner associations; is c&r the only alternative to a total ban of fishing? And as a consequense of c&r, only fly fishing allowed! Well, many places in the rest of the world, fly fishing is the only method allowed when fishing for Atlantic salmon.
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Hope after all?
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A hope is lit for the Atlantic wild salmon: John Fredriksen, the main shareholder of the worlds largest salmon farming company Marine Harvest, AND PASSIONATE FLY FISHING SALMON FISHERMAN, will prohibited salmon farms from fiords of salmon rivers!
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The worst offenders on escaped salmon!
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"If the level of escapes continue, the rivers in near future will not have any wild salmon, but only bewilded farmed salmon!"
The volume of escapees in rivers would create thru interbreeding with wild ones, a hybrid with almost no chance of survival and in this way, extinguish the wild.
Now we can present the worst offending companies on escaped farmed fish in 2006!:
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The wild salmon need more than our best wishes for the New Year!
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2007 may be our last chance to preserve the strains of wild salmon of many famous Norwegian rivers!
The government will still allow salmon farms within the borders of the appointed wild preserves, the national salmon fjords!
This is an acknowledge to the salmon farming business as not harmful, and a headless decision neglecting concrete facts, leading to extinguish the wild salmon!
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60 salmon farms are allowed to carry on within the borders of appointed salmon fjords!
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The minister of environment presentet the 15th. of December, the Governments politics for saving the wild salmon.
They will allow 60 salmon farms to carry on within the borders of appointed national salmon fjords!
The strains of wild salmon in rivers running into these fjords are then very much threatened.
We must react now to change this; a national salmon fjord has no meaning if the salmon farms can carry on!
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Sea lice conquered in the Hardangerfjord
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In the Hardangerfjord, with it's heavy salmon farm consentration, the Hardanger Fiskehelse Nettverk (Hardanger Fish-health Network)(HFN) was initiated by a few salmon farmers in March 2003. Now 14 of a total of 17 salmon farm businesses are participating and this affects 90-95% of the farmed salmon in the fjord. The main task is to fight sea lice, but also other health-related issues.
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Enormous amount of escaped farmed salmon invade fjords and rivers!
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Farmed salmon have no place in rivers, says Johan Mjønes.
Enormous amount of escapees, estimated 490.000 from Marine Harvest's farms in Tustna, invade fjords and rivers. Johan Mjønes in Snillfjord does everything he can to stop the run of escapees in river Åstelva. He's got permission from the County Environmental department to block the river-mouth with nets.
At the same time in county Nord-Trøndelag, the county head-riverkeeper, Anton Rikstad, detects a great number of farmed smolt in the rivers there!
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490.000 escaped farmed salmon!
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Yet another gigantic escape has happened in Norway.
This summer 200.000 salmon escaped from a farm in the Alta Fjord.
Now 490.000 can treathen the wild by running the salmon rivers due to an escape from Marine Harvests farm in Tustna, county Nordmøre.
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Salmon farming threatens the wild salmon of River Alta!
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The Fjord is dead -
– The Fjord of Alta is nearly barren compared with the situation some years ago. No wild salmon on the run into the river for spawning and the few wild fish in the Fjord disappear.
Commercial fisherman Arnt Ring observes that the Fjord earlier full of wild salmon, now looks dead. Slowly but surely, the wild salmon will be extinct.
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Stop Salmon Drift Nets Now
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Most of the salmon that should be returning to the rivers of France, Spain, Germany, Wales and England are nearly extinct. In North America the Atlantic salmon is now an endangered species.
The Irish drift net fishery is thwarting salmon restoration projects elsewhere in Europe that are costing billions of euros.
It is an embarrassment that the Irish Government has been the target of well argued complaints made to the European Commission about its failure to follow other countries in banning drift nets.
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Growth hormone make fish grow, but also affects the brain and the behaviour of the fish.
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Growth hormone make fish grow, but also affects the brain and the behaviour of the fish. This has been shown in Victoria Johansson’s dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, where she has studied the effect of GH on the central nerve system in various salmonides: rainbow trout, salmon and trout. Fish that have been treated with GH are more physically active, eat more and respond to threats in a different way.
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Hybrids between salmon and sea trout have been observed in the river Driva
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This conclusion results from investigations carried out by NINA, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on behalf of Norway’s Directorate for Nature Management. This water system has been infected by the parasite Gyrodactylus Salaris, lethal to salmon, since the mid seventies, and as a result the original Driva salmon has been almost wiped out.
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The wild salmon back to rivers
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Owners of fishing rights in the rivers that enter the Trondheim Fjord have given salmon net fishermen a concrete offer of payment for leaving the nets on shore. They want to secure acceptance from at least 80% of the netsmen to go ahead with the project.
The netsmen have been offered NOK 70 per kilo of salmon caught in their nets in an average season. Each fisherman’s average catch over the last five years is the basis for calculating his compensation.
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Norwegian fish in trouble if avoiding environmental labelling
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If Norwegian fish products are to survive tough international competition, there is no avoiding some sort of environmental labelling. Fishing-boat skippers have taken this message to heart.
The big issue is what sort of labelling one should go for. At the moment, the most important sustainability certification, as far as fish is concerned, is the much-disputed one endorsed by the MSC (Marine Stewardship Council). read more
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The Atlantic Salmon Atlas & Salmon Annual 2004
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One of the great attractions of angling for Atlantic salmon is that our pursuit of Salar takes us to some of the most delightful locations. And one of the pleasures of a fishing trip to a distant or local river lies in the
weeks of planning and anticipation. We hope the reader will be able to plan many memorable fishing trips using the information found within this book.
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Part 2 in the weak governmental plan to save the salmon.
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The Norwegian Government is not doing enough to save the the famous wild Norwegian salmon. The wild stocks are on the verge of extinction in many rivers, because of Gyrodactylus salaris, escaped farmed salmon and hydro-electrical power-plants/regulations.
Part 2 in the government`s strategy to save the wild salmon:
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Commercial “No-Fishing” agreements ...
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 ... are turning the tide for wild Atlantic salmon.
For over a decade, in order to counter a widespread decline in wild Atlantic salmon stocks, the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) has pioneered environmental agreements that are based on commercial principles. These
agreements depend on the voluntary co-operation of commercial salmon fishermen.
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At last many organisations are sharing our view; salmon farming is today one of the most serious threats to wild, genuine salmon!
The unique big salmon strain in the river Vosso was strongly diminished during the late eighties. Surveys throughout the nineties up till today, show that the population has not recovered, and that the Vosso salmon must be considered severely threatened by extermination.
The norwegian company Pan Fish has proposed a smolt unit on the Ettrick, the vital spring salmon spawning tributary of the Tweed catchment. In Norway, it's forbidden to practise aquaculture in river systems which support wild salmonids! 
National Geographic turns the opinion against farmed salmon!
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