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Eight more days until "The Get Out Migration" reaches Victoria - Environmental Communication Options/Huff Strategy

Eight more days until "The Get Out Migration" reaches Victoria

Apr 30th, 2010 10:11 AM

Media Advisory Eight more days until "The Get Out Migration" reaches Victoria The Public Gets Out for Alexandra Morton's Migration - All roads and rivers lead to Victoria on May 8 (Friday, April 30, 2010) The wave of public support for The Get Out Migration continues to build as Alexandra Morton and hundreds of supporters march toward Victoria for a mass rally on May 8th in support of the removal of open net salmon farming from British Columbia waters. In Campbell River on Wednesday (April 28) over 200 people massed for a rally in Spirit Square. Afterwards, Salmon Are Sacred delivered back to aquaculture giant Marine Harvest their lost property of escaped farmed salmon [1]. The Pure Salmon Campaign then visited Cermaq's head office to deliver a letter calling for the resignation of their CEO Geir Isaksen [2]. Yesterday (April 29) in Courtenay, Alexandra Morton was welcomed by First Nations and canoed to the K'ómoks Band Hall with supportive crowds lining the river banks and blocking the highway. Today (April 30), the Get Out Migration is moving down-Island to Fanny Bay for an afternoon event hosted by Coalwatch. Alexandra Morton will meet the Denman Island ferry at Buckley Bay at 2pm and meet at Cowie Creek at 2.30pm then on to Fanny Bay Community Hall. Tomorrow (May 1), the Migration heads to Qualicum River for an event at the Big Qualicum River Campground and will meet up with 11 year-old Laterra Lawson and her grandmother who have walked from Tofino. On Sunday (May 2), the Migration heads to Qualicum Beach for an event at the Pheasant Glen Golf Club en route to Parksville. Meanwhile, the 'Paddle for Wild Salmon' continues down the Fraser River joined by Michelle Nickerson of the Ripple Effect (who swam around a salmon farm in the Wild Salmon Narrows around Quadra Island last Tuesday). These paddlers will be escorted across the Georgia Strait on May 7 by the Sto:lo First Nation to meet up with the main Migration in Sidney. For more detail about the itinerary and meeting points en-route, visit: http://www.salmonaresacred.org/itinerary To arrange interviews with Alexandra Morton and Migration members, please contact: Don Staniford at 250-230-1172 Notes to Editors: [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5JODfQsrc4 [2] http://www.salmonaresacred.org/blog/campbell-river-rally-protest-norwegian-fish-farms-get-out and http://puresalmon.org/pr_28apr2010.html