Ecojustice News Release | October 12, 2016 Government failure to test farmed salmon for disease illegal, lawsuit alleges VANCOUVER – The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is breaking the law by not testing B.C. farmed salmon for a virus that has spread like wildfire in...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | September 30, 2016 The activist-biologist, a long-time critic of the industry, describes development as a ‘SLAPP’ suit. Marine Harvest is suing activist and biologist Alexandra Morton for trespassing on three of its fish farms last...

The Province | By Alexandra Morton and Devon Page | September 25, 2016 By not authorizing the testing farmed salmon for piscine reovirus before their release into the ocean, Dominic LeBlanc is evading his responsibilities The threat that open-net salmon farms along...

The Straight.com | By  Carlito Pablo | September 7, 2016 A direct action group dedicated to protecting marine wildlife is urging consumers to stop eating Atlantic salmon farmed on the coast of B.C. Representatives of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society made the call...

News1130 | By Lasia Kretzel  | September 5, 2016 Members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation joined hands with Fraser Nations outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Monday as the group wrapped up its latest series of protests against salmon farms in their area. The...

Times Colonist | By Richard Watts | September 3, 2016 A protest against ocean-water fish farms drew about 400 people, including First Nations members, leaders, politicians, activists and supporters to the B.C. legislature Saturday. The demonstration was led by leaders...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | August 31, 2016 Campbell River meeting comes as Morton video of farmed fish goes viral.   More than 50 First Nations protestors, including several hereditary chiefs, called for the eviction of multinational-owned fish farms from...

The Straight.com | September 1, 2016 On Wednesday, September 7, actor and activist Richard Dean Anderson will welcome Sea Shepherd Conservation Society research vessel the R/V Martin Sheen to Vancouver. Best known to fans for his title role on the 1980s TV...

Campbell River Mirror | By Jocelyn Doll | August 30th, 2016 On Monday morning Alexandra Morton and the crew of the Sea Shepherd stopped in Campbell River and stood hand-in-hand with members of local First Nations bands to protest fish farms. The group of around 50...

Global News | By Jon Azpiri | August 29, 2016 A B.C. environmentalist claims she has shocking new evidence that B.C. fish farms are carrying diseases that could potentially infect wild salmon. Note: See comment from Alexandra Morton at end of this article. Earlier...

CBC.ca | By Richard Zussman | August 27, 2016 Native protesters moving on fish farms in wake of landmark decision recognizing First Nations land rights Fish farms along British Columbia's West Coast have been at the centre of political and environmental battles for...

Times Colonist | By Amy Smart | August 26, 2016 ish farming companies Cermaq and Marine Harvest are coming under fire from coastal First Nations, who have issued eviction notices and tried to stop operations. RCMP arrested and released four members of the Ahousaht...

The Tyee.ca | By Andrew Nikiforuk | September 25, 2016 ‘It is the right of any human to protect their land and water,’ says one protester. The RCMP has arrested and released four Indigenous protesters in the community of Ahousaht, B.C. for trying to obstruct a fish...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | August 22, 2016 Orders follow a number of developments, including federal decision to extend licences. The Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, whose traditional lands includes much of the Broughton Archipelago, have boarded two Japanese-owned...

Desmog Blog | By Judith Lavoie • Sunday, August 21, 2016 - 11:49 Members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation say salmon farms in their territory are destroying wild salmon runs and polluting clam beds and they must leave. On Thursday and Friday a small...

Traditional Leaders of Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw board CERMAQ fish farm  CBC News | By Jon Hernandez | Posted: Aug 20, 2016 5:30 PM PT Last Updated: Aug 20, 2016 5:30 PM PT A B.C. First Nation has served a 72-hour eviction notice to a fish farm on the northern coast of...

Desmog Blog | By Judith Lavoie| August 10, 2016 As federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc was in West Vancouver Tuesday, promising that his government would act on all 75 recommendations from the 2012 Cohen Commission into the decline of Fraser River...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | August 8, 2016 No ‘hippie terrorists’ here, the sailors supporting Alexandra Morton’s research mission share a passion for ocean life. Sailing aboard the Martin Sheen for a couple of days can quickly crush every expectation one might...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | August 2, 2016 As biologist’s research quest continues, industry decries use of drones and cameras as ‘harassment.’ It is early morning and Alexandra Morton has parked a small outboard near the Venture Point fish farm in the deep...

Times Colonist | By Amy Smart  | July 27, 2016 The First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance is calling on the federal government to stop expansion of fish farming and include First Nations in its efforts to protect wild salmon. Open-net pen farming threatens the health of...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | July 25, 2016 Parasites spiked in Broughton area salmon pens, and hit decade high among wild juveniles, says new report. B.C salmon farms last year were besieged by sea lice, according to a new University of Toronto study, which also...

Vancouver Sun | By Randy Shore | July 23, 2016 Delays in treatment of sea-lice infestations on salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago in 2015 may have contributed to the transfer of the parasites to wild fish, according to a new study. While some farms applied...

Times Colonist | By Amy Smart | July 24, 2016 n Island First Nation says wild salmon advocates aren’t welcome at its fish farms. Tlowitsis Chief John M. Smith said he won’t allow conservationists to visit two small Atlantic salmon farms on the Campbell River nation’s...

CBC News | By Lisa Johnson | July 23, 2016 Once-muzzled federal scientist talks about the push to find out what diseases can hurt wild salmon It's enough to make even the most ardent salmon lover lose their appetite: the divisive debate that's raged for decades on the...

Media Advisory On Sunday July 24, 2016, 11:00 am, Hereditary Chief George Quocksister Jr. will be speaking for the Awhwaoo Tribe of the Laichwiltach Nation to make a statement aboard the Martin Sheen.  Chief Quocksister Jr. is addressing his comments to Prime Minister...

Aboard the Martin Sheen: July 21, 2016 For immediate release Yesterday’s publication of a new scientific paper brings further science to the measurable impact that salmon farming is having on wild salmon in BC. Alexandra Morton, one of the authors of the study,...

FIS Canada | July 20, 2016 The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) has expressed concern over the way the organisation Sea Shepherd Society will carry out its activist campaign in which the actress Pamela Anderson will participate and which includes salmon farm...

The Chilliwack Progress | by  Jennifer Feinberg - Chilliwack Progress | posted Jul 19, 2016 at 2:00 PM— updated Jul 19, 2016 at 3:05 PM It was a bit of a media circus Monday in Vancouver. Scientists, First Nations and celebrities like Pamela Anderson and David Suzuki,...

Huffington Post Quebec | Radio-Canada.ca | July 18, 2016 Note: This article is translated from French. The original article can be viewed here. The Association of British Columbia salmon farmers are concerned about the consequences of a boycott of their products. The...

NRK Sapmi | By Dan Robert Larson | July 19, 2016 Note: Story is translated from Norwegian. See original version here. A new campaign led by the controversial "Sea Shepherd Society," requested consumers not to buy farmed salmon. Pamela Anderson is best known from the...

Global News | By Kylie Stanton | July 18, 2016 The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is launching it’s latest campaign – “Operation Virus Hunter.”  The plan is to investigate the lawfulness of the salmon farming industry in B.C., and this time it’s backed by some high...

Metro News | By: David P. Ball Metro Published on Tue Jul 19 2016 It may not be Baywatch, but Pamela Anderson is watching some of B.C.’s bays — and ocean passages — much closer than many may have suspected. On Monday, the 49-year-old actor and animal rights activist...

The Tyee | By Andrew Nikiforuk | July 19, 2016 When Alexandra Morton learned that Paul Watson, the combative navigator of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was sending a research vessel to British Columbia to help draw attention to the threat fish farms pose to...

Business in Vancouver | By Nelson Bennet | July 18, 2016, 4:08 p.m Pamela Anderson, the former B.C. actress of Baywatch fame, is lending her name to the maritime activist group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and anti-fish-farm campaigner Alexandra Morton in a...

CBC News | By Lisa Johnson, CBC News Posted: Jul 18, 2016 5:15 PM PT Last Updated: Jul 18, 2016 5:15 PM PT Celebrity and animal-rights activist Pamela Anderson joined David Suzuki and others to urge consumers not to eat B.C. farmed salmon on Monday, at the launch of a...

The Maritime Executive | By MarEx 2016-07-17 19:07:59 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has teamed with Canadian biologist Alexandra Morton and actor/activist Pamela Anderson for Operation Virus Hunter, a new campaign investigating the lawfulness of the salmon farming...

Times Colonist | July 17, 2016 | Katheiine Dedyna Scores of salmon farms around Vancouver Island will be given six-year licences instead of one-year deals, sparking alarm among wild-salmon advocates. The move happens at the same time as a push by environmentalists to...

The Province | Vancouver Sun CHERYL CHAN (Vancouver Sun) Link: http://www.theprovince.com/news/local+news/pamela+anderson+joins+anti+fish+farm+fight/12065150/story.html Published: July 17, 2016  Updated: July 18, 2016 2:02 AM The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is...