Marine Biologist Breaks Down Removing Fish Farms

‘I never thought this day would come’ - After a 30-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon, marine biologist Alexandra Morton sees the impact of removing fish farms first-hand.
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[@5Heth]

It’s about time someone finally did something about the salmon farms. Good on the government there for listening to the advice of the First Nation People & taking a stand to protect the salmon. Great job guys. Best wishes from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺❤️

[@dianaagnoli9377]

Listen to First Nation people and the whole world will be better!!

[@Thegrumpycarpenter]

@Ayn Rand Huts and stone tools are just amazing evidence for there scientific prowess

[@kaddie62]

@Ayn Rand Ur so ignorant lol

[@Thegrumpycarpenter]

@Ayn Rand sarcasm isn’t your thing huh

[@jennifervan75]

Always listen to first nation people

[@juanvargas174]

The planet earth will always regenerate ❤ mother nature is just trying extra hard this years to get rid of its biggest pest. HUMANS!

[@YseaSumera]

Says the first nation

[@user-oldblindguyD]

This is a great step forward to a healthier ecosystem/food chain, that must be applauded.

[@darrenbutler9819]

@Ayn Rand that mostly happens due to 4profit folks at the top, they raise the price for their own gain.

[@user-oldblindguyD]

@Ayn Rand , You want profits before quality & environmental concerns, so your opinion is moot. Help yourself to a nice serving of those farmed, "toilet fish" & their diseased carcasses.

[@user-oldblindguyD]

@Ayn Rand , Fish are to be fished, not farmed. Go for a walk in a chicken coop & breathe deeply. In Nature, that is exactly what a fish farm is like. Stay well, in spite of your ignorance.

[@Jolene8]

@Ayn Rand I'd rather have healthy, natural salmon once a year than farm raised all year long. The difference between the two is astonishing.

[@mirygalas6508]

Thank you to Alexandra Morton and the Chiefs of First Nations for being so steadfast, and true human beings.

[@RayMak]

These fish are so beautiful

[@ese_cholito]

Especially in my belly.

[@darrenbutler9819]

@@ese_cholito your idea of beautiful is chewed up slimy fish, ok.

[@DPowered2]

Its amazing how sometimes nature bounces back near immediately once we make a change. Shows humans are the source of so many things even the things that harm ourselves.

[@dvdv8197]

Salmon must have a good data plan... They are always streaming

[@engineergaming5989]

Salmon gaming

[@stephanieyee9784]

This is wonderful news! To let the fish swim freely as they should and allowing them to grow naturally in their natural environment is so much better for the fish, fisherman, consumers and the environment. Thank you for your amazing service.

[@yesterdaysfool3948]

All of this lifts my heart and makes me smile. I've never eaten farmed salmon that I was aware of, and I never will. Many many thanks to the first nations for taking a strong stance against such morally bankrupt greed, and to you for bringing this news to the masses

[@Exquailibur]

Aquaculture is a very potentially important resource, but it needs to be done correctly in a way that doesn't harm the wild populations. In my personal opinion we would be better off not eating salmon, tuna, cod and other heavily fished species and instead turn to freshwater species that can be grown in contained ponds.

[@shawnharris2242]

What causes the lice in fish farms? They left a huge portion of educational information out. Just a short 3min video saying "no lice is great for the salmon" didn't educate how the lice outbreak got so bad in the farms, how they were transferred to non farm waters, how do you control the lice outbreak once noticed. A Looot of very useful educational information was excluded. I consider this a fail on NowThis for educational purposes, just click bait with emotional music playing in background.

[@plaidpanda]

I'm also baffled at why this wasn't included... I waited until the end just to get no explanation at all.

[@shawnharris2242]

@@plaidpanda Truly a terrible video of education, great video to get sympathy views from title but otherwise garbage. They even give the wrong message that the fish farms were issue and are bad... which is a gross statement, most a beneficial when operating properly and good government oversight... seems to me like these farms had terrible regulation by staff or government for checking which caused the issues. They said there was a limit of 3 lice per fish from early 2000's and that all the farms exceeded that number... so did the government come and halt operations? were the farms fined till problem was fixed? Do they have to participate in some sort of restoration program from contributing? Sooo many important unanswered questions.

[@nocause5395]

Crowded conditions in salmon farms make it easier for lice to attach and breed

[@sapphirelight748]

I was just assuming it worked the same way as with people. All those fish grouped together and one of them gets lice...

[@shawnharris2242]

@@sapphirelight748 doesn't necessarily have to do with large groupings, the food they use for the fish could be an aspect providing the environmental criteria for the lice population to explode rapidly. They really should have gone into what caused the lice and why it wasn't controlled via government fines, scaling down operations, etc.

[@joshualittlewolfe8550]

Comrades, it is our duty to protect Mother Earth. Never forget your basics duties as a HUMAN BEING and STEWART OF THE EARTH.

[@stephanieyee9784]

We are Not comrades. Not communists. Just concerned global citizens.

[@nightspeakerthefallenwing3451]

Salmon: *FREEDOM!!!*

[@fabianberber]

Just proves that the earth will prosper without humanity

[@darrenbutler9819]

@Ayn Rand better yet you

[@pattygould8240]

It's unfortunate that the rivers are getting too hot for their survival.

[@DeVon675]

I didn't understand the relationship between sea lice and salmon farms. I know she said that no farms mean no lice but... Mmm... Like why?

[@drg8687]

Salmon farms create an unnatural density of salmon populations which allows the lice to not just survive but postively thrive, like mold on bread. The lice population becomes so high even the salmon not in the farms are infected. It's like a plague. Spread them out and the lice is contained.

[@summer-7968]

@@drg8687 And when the juvenile salmon swim past the salmon farms, they are infected with the free-swimming juvenile sea lice sourced from those farms as well. An adult salmon might be able to withstand that number of sea lice, but the juveniles with their tiny bodies can't.

[@RobertCurtin-hi2cm]

Salmon farms are also sea lice farms. We need this law in the Puget Sound.

[@ianroberts2876]

And shortly after this video was produced, professional biologists published the actual data which proved there was no change in sea lice levels, regardless of fish farms operating or not. (oh, and your main character profiled is not a registered marine biologists, which allows her to fib royally like she does in this video)

[@freem4nn129]

So glad to see things getting done and SOLVED !

[@thegamingscotsman4018]

Great they doing stuff over in canada still battleing with it in scotland hope they do the same here soon as its destorying the wild atlantic salmon

[@GordCurry-it4xo]

Thanks to you, that is excellent work !!

[@owenreaney6864]

If you think about it the marine biologist could have taken a salmon that has a genetic mutation that could save the world just to study them.

[@summer-7968]

The baby salmon are all released unharmed if your read her book

[@christinepark1398]

Good news!

[@hansfrantz1791]

Add some dramatic music, and suddenly her lies sound true

[@antoniousai1989]

All of this to eat a fish that is tasteless, to begin with. People are idiots.

[@Dudelsackpfeifer]

Bit of idiocy in your own comment too.

[@filonin2]

Salmon is one of the tastiest fish. You've clearly had covid.

[@rontimber8566]

Beautiful!

[@codenameviper8967]

I'm sorry if this is ignorant but it's my first time hearing the term. What is "First Nation People"??

[@judymanning2538]

Means: Indigenous People of the americas ie canada and USA. The native people 🍀

[@codenameviper8967]

@@judymanning2538 thank you!!

[@judymanning2538]

@@codenameviper8967 ❤ curiosity is a sign of intelligence, as you know. Stay safe body and soul 🍀

[@Dudelsackpfeifer]

@Ayn Rand What term would you use, oh enlightened one?

[@Dudelsackpfeifer]

​@@codenameviper8967 In Canada, we have First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. All three of these are umbrella terms for diverse groups, and they all fall under the even more broad umbrella term of Indigenous or Aboriginal.

[@dhonnano7417]

Second non-political news this week, yey

[@wesleyrodgers886]

Excellent! 👍.

[@dvdv8197]

My friend is making a lot of easy money by taking pictures of salmon dressed in human clothes. It’s like shooting fish in apparel.

[@FozzyFUCT]

HA!!!!

[@catwrangler7907]

I am a salmon and agree with this

[@jennifervan75]

Your name is Cat

[@sweetbuns4537]

@@jennifervan75 salmon disguised as cat. Purrfect.

[@catwrangler7907]

@@jennifervan75 cat fish

[@darrenbutler9819]

@@jennifervan75 catfish do exist

[@catwrangler7907]

@@sweetbuns4537 you should meet my cousin dog salmon from the Pacific Ocean

[@WalkinBeauty278]

Made my day

[@kaushikmalepati2495]

I wonder if Americans will follow suit...

[@MrMannyhw]

Delicious wild Pacific salmon for dinner instead of farmed Atlantic salmon.

[@elizabethhenning778]

@Ayn Rand We don't need to factory farm to feed everyone. We do need to stop consuming so much animal protein.

[@Karleystevens234]

Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming, What Do We Do? We Swim!!!!!

[@michaelhansen6736]

Alle fjorde og havet skal være fri for fiske farme.

[@derekwagner157]

Long overdue

[@quaidmciver172]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@eddypdeb]

I don't get it. How were the fisheries causing the salmon to get lice? What's the mechanism?

[@relentlessmadman]

It is kinda like living in a city the closer you are forced to live, to others, the more likely you are to catch what they have! trapped in enclosures is not conducive to good health!

[@Gahundledack]

The fish farms provide a steady supply of food for sea lice and other parasites, which contributes to a large standing population in the region that the wild fish migrate through. When the fish farm is removed, there is not a source of food for sea lice when the fish are not migrating, so they either die off or move to...bluer pastures? There are probably some sea lice in the area, but because there isn't a large captive population of salmon to feed off, the population is much much smaller.

[@milliem9816]

It’s like factory farming, but for fish. When animals like pigs and cows and chickens are crowded together, disease is rampant, which is why so many are injected with antibiotics. It’s unnatural for animals, humans included, to live so close to each other.

[@eddypdeb]

@@Gahundledack that makes sense, it didn't make sense to me as I was under the impression the fisheries were just actually artificial temporary enclosures to catch the fish moving around there, not actual permanent enclosed spaces.

[@taradufour2187]

Yes bring back the natives!

[@mrblonde7462]

I won’t be eating Salmon for a long time

[@fjp9]

i actually have some in my fridge right now. lol

[@lovepet4565]

Salmon farms are terrible

[@PigRipperLAW]

Love this

[@3takoyakis]

Ppl: yeah take that salmon farm, you make our food dangerous Also ppl: wheres salmon?

[@Dudelsackpfeifer]

less salmon farms means more healthy salmon, less unhealthy salmon.

[@treasureabram9492]

Not me seeing FISH ARMS and thinking y’all cut they lil arms off and they just snake moving through the water now💀

[@judymanning2538]

For the algorithm

[@stephens1726]

It’s about time somthing was done about this. Too late though I’m afraid.

[@c0mputer]

Poor salmon lice. Just when their numbers were growing humans go and disrupt their ecosystem.

[@kevinhovivian1121]

Ha ha good one !

[@ese_cholito]

Progressives are disconnected. We can't ranch cattle and other animals for food, we can't fish normally and now we can't farm fish.

[@bl00dhoney]

Do you want to eat fish with parasites?

[@ese_cholito]

@@bl00dhoney do you eat parasites when you eat ranched meats?

[@bl00dhoney]

@@ese_cholito I don't eat meat

[@kevinhovivian1121]

​@@ese_cholito No, I am eating chemicals, tell me which are best ?

[@antoniousai1989]

You're just pretending to be edgy, just for the thrill. Find a better outlet for your insecurities. Have a good day.

[@ese_cholito]

Stop pretending you care about hungry humans around the planet when you want to limit their sources of food.

[@kevinhovivian1121]

That's where you are wrong, if not unaware. There is not only one way to produce food. And for the record, the world IS actually already producing more than enough food to feed all the human species, the problem is the wasting.

[@sweetbuns4537]

@@kevinhovivian1121 don't interact with him. He is a huge troll and his content is awful.

[@kevinhovivian1121]

@Ayn Rand With a pseudo like yours, I do not get why you care about others.

[@nkkenlken3220]

@@kevinhovivian1121 but why go after fish farms? They are by far the most sustainable source of meat on this earth (unless you count insects). You can get 1 kilo salmon for 1.4 kilo food. A proper maintained fish farm would have one of the lowest carbon emissions of any meat farm. They also realizes as much or even less waste into the ocean then cow and pig farms.

[@antoniousai1989]

@Ayn Rand Maybe stop feeding your corn and soy to the cows and you'll have all the food that you need.

[@flamehiro]

Wtf are fish farms

[@ese_cholito]

An advancement of human ingenuity that "progressives" hate the progress of.

[@Dudelsackpfeifer]

@@ese_cholito it's not progress. Even if we're just talking about consumption, the meat is of a poorer quality. If we're talking ethics, the conditions are inhumane. If we're talking ecology or even culture and tradition, it's harming the salmon which are an integral part of the food web and of coastal traditions. If we're talking economy, it's benefiting wealthy corporations at the expense of small fishers, both indigenous and non-indigenous. How is any of this progress or ingenuity?

[@milliem9816]

It’s like a factory farm, but for fish.

[@ese_cholito]

@@Dudelsackpfeifer the quality of the meat is significantly better than what tribal humanity had to deal with.

[@ese_cholito]

@@Dudelsackpfeifer if you want humanity to return to a point in time where you had to hunt the wild, by all means, tell me exactly how you would butcher the animal so I can laugh.

[@timmylittle2406]

So sad she is using a motor boat with all the environmental concerns.

[@timmylittle2406]

@Zeno the Filipino lol. You think those boats run cleaner than automobiles? Wow batman