Salmon Confidential: A new documentary on disease and salmon farming in British Columbia
“Salmon Confidential” is a new documentary by Twyla Roscovich, a documentary filmmaker from British Columbia. The film tells the story of how diseases from salmon farms may be affecting wild salmon and how the government of Canada appears to be doing everything they can to avoid addressing the problem.
For me, I started my career working on the environmental impacts of salmon farming as my master’s of science project examined the interactions between sea lice, salmon farms, and juvenile salmon. I call my experience a “baptism by fire” into the world of resource use conflict. My project was from 2002 – 2006 and I dealt with the same issues that are portrayed in this film. It saddens me a great deal to see that they same attempts to avoid acknowledging the problem are still happening.
In short, I believe one our greatest assets as a species is our ability to problem solve. However, if we don’t admit that there are problem’s in the first place, which is the case for salmon farming in BC when it comes to disease, then we cannot tap into this ability.
Check out the film at www.salmonconfidential.ca!!