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Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
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Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
Marine biologists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
Women marine biologists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
Pacific salmon -- Conservation -- British Columbia.
Salmon farming -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia.
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Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
Marine biologists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
Women marine biologists -- British Columbia -- Biography.
Pacific salmon -- Conservation -- British Columbia.
Salmon farming -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia.
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Not on my watch : how a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild
salmon
/ Alexandra Morton.
by
Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
Random House Canada, 2021.
Call #:
578.77092 M889n
Subjects
Morton, Alexandra, 1957-
Marine biologists
--
British
Columbia
--
Biography.
Women marine biologists
--
British
Columbia
--
Biography.
Pacific
salmon
--
Conservation
--
British
Columbia
.
Salmon
farming
--
Environmental
aspects
--
British
Columbia
.
ISBN:
9780735279667 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild
salmon
Description:
xvii, 363 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save
British
Columbia
's wild
salmon
, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbours, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild
salmon
for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic
salmon
into the migration routes of wild Pacific
salmon
, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild
salmon
and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild
salmon
and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years."--From publisher.
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