Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon Morton Alexandra
Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon Morton Alexandra NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada"…
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Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon Morton Alexandra
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca.
Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm 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 in