BC Artist Focuses on Pink Salmon Extinction Point

Artist Andrew Wright  speaks out about the dubious extinction of bearing witness to the extinction of wild pink salmon.

"Bearing witness to a species on the cusp of extinction is indeed a dubious privilege and the experience, combined with the making of this image, has left me deeply angry. I am angry for so many reasons – at the intransigence of the B.C. government and DFO officials who are charged with protecting this coast; for the thousands of hours that many well-informed scientists, researchers, conservationists and eco-campaigners have committed to educate this government – yet to no avail; that I am impotent to effect a change; that it is unlikely my children will be able to take their children to an abundant and bio-productive Broughton. It is an anger that endures."

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