Something was a little off
Courier-Islander, Wednesday, April 27, 2011
There was something a little off with Alexandra Morton's visit to Campbell River Tuesday. And it was more than what her entourage had in their containers.
Morton, the anti open net cage fish farming activist, came to town on what is called the "Cut The Crap" campaign.
She brought with her samples of what she says came from the ocean floor beneath a fish farm. She took it to Marine Harvest and Mainstream offices in Campbell River and then to the campaign office of Vancouver Island North Conservative candidate John Duncan.
Accompanying her were two helpers dressed in hazard material outfits.
There is no doubt of the concerns about what happens to the ocean floor beneath fish farms. It doesn't take much study to realize that there's an awful lot of fish poop and stuff that eventually settles there.
Morton obviously wanted to step up the pressure on Duncan, the only candidate on the North Island who supports open net cage fish farming. And with the May 2 federal election just days away she quickly voiced her support for NDP candidate Ronna Ray-Leonard.
But this stunt had a childishness to it that was quite unsettling. Perhaps a better way would have been to get the stuff analyzed. Parading around downtown Campbell River with containers of the sludge didn't, we think, help Morton's cause as much as she and her handlers thought it would.
