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Notes on Norway

Brian Gunn's Notes of the visit to Norway May 2008

Wild salmon advocates David Lane (CAAR), Brian Gunn (WTA), and Francisco Vera Millaquén (Spokesperson of the Mapuche Huilliche community of Pepiukelen Manchup, Chile) recently visited Norway, May 19-22, 2008, to meet with fish farm company executives and shareholders, and the Norwegian media.

The purpose of our visit was to illustrate to the Norwegian people and the salmon farming industry (which for the most part is concentrated in Norway) the grave impacts fish farming is having on wild fisheries in BC and Chile and our (WTA) businesses.

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Brian Gunn's Notes of His Norway Trip June 2007

I went...to Norway with a group of people representing the Pure Salmon Campaign including representative from Chile. I met with farmers, fishermen, hunters, ENGO's, MPs, labour organizations, people from the Department of Environment and the Department of Fisheries, the CEO of Cermaq and Marine Harvest Shareholders for the purpose of increasing our knowledge of the farmers and to ask them to stop killing our wild salmon. This report and trip follows on the visit of Tom Rivest of Great Bear Nature Tours three weeks previously to meet with the Cermaq shareholders.

I came away from Norway feeling more strongly than ever that the most serious problem facing our industry is the collapse of the wild populations of salmon in BC and consequently the death of our coastal nature based industry as we know it, if the open net caged salmon farms continue in their present state and continue to expand. The following is what I said, learned and had reinforced in my mind about the problems facing our industry and how to solve them...

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