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Words by @alexmorton4salmon // “Keystone species means that if that species is removed, things start to collapse. It means it’s the key to the lock that opens the door to the whole ecosystem. Some people say to me, ‘ I don’t eat salmon, so I don’t really care.” Well, do you breathe? Because salmon are feeding the trees that make the oxygen that we breathe. “From the moment the salmon egg leaves the mother’s body, it’s feeding the world around them. There’s not a lot of species that are designed to feed the masses. They can feed all of us and thrive. They are so remarkable and they’re such a gift. They’re so important. They are a bloodstream. I don’t say that lightly. They go out into the open ocean and they are gathering the energy of the sun hitting the ocean. Because the sun hits the ocean and it creates this good plankton bloom which feed little fish, and then the salmon eat those fish. Then they bring that all back home and they defy gravity and they take it up the watershed and they feed the trees. Somehow we have lost that memory, that connection, that understanding.” Now is a critical moment in the 30-year effort to protect wild salmon from industrial salmon farms. Add your name at the link in our bio to ask the Minister of Fisheries not to renew the last salmon farm licenses and prevent further devastation for our keystone species. Video by @paulnicklen@onlyone@alexmorton4salmon@watershedwatchbc@rewild@[email protected]@mitty@paulnicklen #SaveSalmon #NoSalmonFarmsBC #impact #action #salmon

May 30, 2022