Earth Day River Ceremonies and Walk for Peace

Here are some pics of our River Ceremonies for the salmon. SalmonTalks also had a great presence at the 25th Annual Walk for Peace in Lillooet on April 24 - getting ready to join the Get Out Migration in Victoria in two weeks.

Earth Day River Ceremonies - April 22

We all pray in different ways

Let us gather and do that

Write a poem, story to put in the river

We will offer these:

- pinch of salt to balance energy within self,
around self and water

- light a candle or fire for light and life

- food offering to the ancestors -

those that have passed on into the spirit world,

they are there to help us

At 11 AM - Gather at Old Bridge

Marie Barney

will do a St'át'imc Spiritual Prayer Ceremony 

- Offer tobacco

- Offer medicines

- Offer a plate of food

We will open and close this ceremony with a song,

any kind of song that has a heart beat...

At 4 PM - Gather at Sat'atqwa7 Powerhouse 
Restoration Site Parking Lot

We will walk to the confluence of the 

Fraser and Seton Rivers

Christine Jack
will conduct our second River Ceremony

for more info contact:

salmontalks@gmail.com

SalmonTalks At DFO Lillooet

Twenty-four members of Salmon Talks Lillooet arrived at the local DFO office to deliver a message of demand. Three key open-net-cage fish farms near Quadra Island must be emptied before the Fraser sockeye smolts reach the area, early in May.

Salmon Talks wants to know who is capable of ordering the three farms, all Norwegian-owned, to harvest and empty their pens of Atlantic salmon. Along with that, we asked what role the mid-Fraser Conservation and Protection office could take in ensuring safe passage for outmigrating sockeye smolts past these fish farms.

Announcing a Change

Because our local DFO office will be vacant on April 6, we've decided to go at 10 AM, Wed. April 7.

Remove the Three Key Fish Farms by May 15

Salmon Talks Lillooet has decided to take action to get coastal fish farms out of the way of Fraser salmon smolts. Three farms full of adult Atlantic salmon must be harvested and emptied before mid-May, when the Fraser smolts will be reaching the narrows near Quadra Island in the Georgia Strait. The salmon crash that we are experiencing calls for emergency protective and precautionary measures, and we will be visiting our local DFO office on Tuesday, April 6, at 10 a.m., to request that the three fish farms be harvested and emptied immediately. 

We invite others to consider similar rallies at their local DFO offices, or at the sites where the smolts in their waters come to enter the Fraser on their journey to the sea. We invite our friends nearby to join us here in Lillooet.

Wild Salmon Cafe

Wild Salmon Café entertains and educates in the mid-Fraser.

Press Release: Salmon Talks Lillooet,  February 20, 2010

Lillooet BC, St'át'imc Territory

On their way to declaring Lillooet a Farmed Salmon Free Zone, the Salmon Talks collective presents a night of music, dance and speak for Fraser River wild salmon.

The Wild Salmon Café will proudly serve the best source of protein available in the world - wild salmon! Dinner by donation starts at 5:30pm on March 20, 2010, at the Lillooet Friendship Centre. Musicians, poets, dancers and speakers will follow up with a family friendly evening of celebration that honours the keystone species in BC's interior: Pacific salmon returning to the Fraser River.

Since the unprecedented crash of salmon stocks of every species and origin along the Fraser last year, an action and education campaign has begun. Elders, youth, biologists, fisheries technicians, artists and environmentalists in the Upper St'át'imc (along the mid-Fraser) have formed The Salmon Talks to organize events that will raise awareness of the critical importance of wild salmon here. The Wild Salmon Café is the first event!

Welcome

Welcome to Salmontalks Lillooet. We hope to give a unique perspective on the salmon crisis from all people living in the Interior Mid-Fraser Basin region.