Upcoming Lecture: Atlantic Salmon Farms & Implications for Chinook Recovery

Friends has joined with the Wild Fish Conservancy to bring you a public discussion about Atlantic salmon net pens and PRV (Piscine Reovirus) in Puget Sound.

Details:

ATLANTIC SALMON NET PENS and their residual implications for Chinook Salmon and Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery

Wednesday, August 8, 7:00 pm, The Commons at Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor. Click here to share the event on Facebook.

Thursday, August 9, 6:00 pm, Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Orcas Island, 218 Main St., Eastsound. Click here to share the event on Facebook. This event is co-hosted by San Juan County WA Democrats, Our Revolution San Juan County, and Orcas Food Co-op.

This past March, Washington state successfully passed a law phasing out open-water Atlantic salmon aquaculture from Puget Sound.  While this law represents an unprecedented environmental success, Our Sound, Our Salmon  is launching a new campaign to educate the public about a debilitating and potentially lethal salmonid virus remaining in Puget Sound Atlantic salmon net pens that cannot be ignored until 2022.

On Wednesday August 8^th and Thursday August 9^th you’re invited to join Kurt Beardslee of Wild Fish Conservancy for a public discussion on PRV (Piscine Reovirus) in Puget Sound.

Kurt will explain what recent science reveals about the virus and how exposure to PRV-infected farmed fish places our native salmonids at risk. He’ll review the results of recent PRV-testing in Puget Sound farmed Atlantic salmon and what these results suggest about the potential scale of infection in the remaining net pens. Kurt will also discuss Our Sound, Our Salmon’s efforts to stand in solidarity with B.C. First Nations as they petition the Canadian government to remove PRV-infected fish farms from their ancestral waters. Finally, learn all about Our Sound, Our Salmon’s new campaign to ensure PRV-infected farmed Atlantic salmon are removed from Puget Sound and how you can support these efforts. The presentations will be followed by a Q and A.

We hope to see you there.