VIDEO: Blood Water. B.C.'s Dirty Salmon Farming Secret

Bloody waste was captured on film by a B.C. photographer who went underwater to document the shocking discovery being spewed out into the waters off Vancouver Island from a farm-salmon processing plant...

Investigative dives at two farmed salmon processing plants reveal a shocking and horrendous secret hidden below the surface.
Bloody effluent, untreated and infected with Piscine Reovirus, is being dumped into the pristine waters of Clayoquot Sound and Discovery Passage, B.C. Canada.
Footage gathered during April, June and October, 2017

This is an international embarrassment to Canada! 

Write to:

Premier John Horgan (premier@gov.bc.ca) 

Prime Minister Justine Trudeau (justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca) 

Tell them the B.C. salmon aquaculture industry MUST transition to land.

WATCH: Sea Lion Unexpectedly Drags Girl into Water at Vancouver-area Wharf

That's one huge sea lion - and it all happened so fast! The sea lion dragged a young girl into the waters at the Steveston Fisherman's Wharf in Richmond, B.C.
Thankfully, as you'll see, the little girl was rescued immediately.

Initially, after watching the video, we were curious as to why the sea lion showed an interest in the girl but discovered later (after reading the CBC news article), that it probably thought her dress was food!
According to SFU student Michael Fujiwara, the guy who captured it on video, the family began feeding it bread crumbs as the young girl got closer to the edge of the dock.

Andrew Trites, the director of UBC's Marine Mammal Research Unit, does not blame the animal for its behaviour in the video, according to another CBC news article:

"My first reaction to the video is just how stupid some people can be to not treat wildlife with proper respect," he said. "This was a male California sea lion. They are huge animals. They are not circus performers. They're not trained to be next to people." 

According to Canada's Marine Mammal Regulations, "no person shall disturb a marine mammal except when fishing." 

Trites says the sea lion in the video looks like it is used to having people feed it.

As a result of the incident...

New signs going up in #steveston #sealions #warning pic.twitter.com/J8c4V2djrm

— Meera Bains (@Meerakati) May 21, 2017

It's a good thing it didn't bite her when it dragged her in because their bites "can cause very serious infections that may lead to amputation of a limb or even death."

Source(s): cbc.ca