Fish Farm Occupation

Ernest Alexander Alfred and a small group have peacefully occupied the Marine Harvest salmon farm, Swanson Island.  They will remain on the farm until their chiefs are satisfied that the Province of BC has cancelled the farm’s Licence of Occupation and thus it has to leave the territory. The farm is located 17km east of Alert Bay.

"I boarded salmon farms and shot underwater footage in the pens. The sheer amount of disease and wild herring in the pens is out of control! We have no food fish again this year, our wild salmon runs are collapsing and the salmon farming industry is a herring fishery that no one knew about! Enough!"