Morton Investigation Reveals: The Greig Seafoods Fish Are Not "Alright"

Dear Morten Vike the fish are not "fine"

by Alexandra Morton

Dear Morten Vike:

I visited your salmon farms in Nootka Sound, Gold River again this week and I am writing to inform you that your statement below is inaccurate.

The fish in your pens are not "fine." Here is how I know.

"We've had an algae bloom, otherwise the fish are doing fine" (July 28, 2014)

We launched a boat and traveled out your Concepcion Point salmon farm through the beauty of Nootka Sound.

I was there to confirm that the fish in your pens are no longer dying, but when we arrived we saw quite a few salmon floating dead on the surface again, the same as last week. The crows were helping themselves.

My next question was how many dead fish are in your pens?

A handful of dead salmon is one thing, but thousands of dead salmon means there is something deadly in the area. Since we could not see to the bottom of your pens, I had to wait to observe as your crew removed them.

The stench from the rotting fish was so strong I thought someone would go about getting the dead fish out of the pens, but we waited and waited and waited some more and no one did anything.

Sometimes the crew on the farm looked out of the house windows at us and took pictures or they appeared briefly on the pens, but they did not go to work. I began to wonder if they had been instructed not to do anything while we were there.

While we waited we had a good look at what we could see from the surface.

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