Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - I decided to finish this hour off by redoining the story of a visit I took to a fish farm, four years ago.
Some people will call this program one sided, which is what happens when you interview the people on one side of an argument.
Prior to this, I interviewed Alexandra Morton on three occasions, and also reviewed her movie “Salmon Confidential Documentary.”
On August 23, 2016, Morton joined members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw nation to board Marine Harvest's Midsummer farm in Kingcome Inlet, BC. The video embedded on Cortes currents shows what Morton found after lowered a Go Pro camera into the pens for ten minutes.
“I was stunned. I saw a fish go by with a big tumour on its’ head. This is one fish out of 800,000 in this pen. How many of the others have this? … Are they going to sell that fish for people to eat, or is that dogfood? I would worry about that,” she said.
When I asked Marine Harvest about the incident, they invited me to visit their fish farm in Phillips Arms.
This is one of the Discovery Island locations now scheduled to be phased out by 2022. In the audio above I describe the visit and how it relates to what I saw in Morton's video.
