The Salmon People

This podcast comes to you courtesy of Canada’s National Observer.

Some victims don’t have voices.

Off the coast of BC, wild salmon started dying by the millions.

Chris Bennett runs Blackfish Lodge 300 kilometres north of Vancouver. He was leading a group of tourists on a boat tour when he looked into the water and noticed young salmon — called smolt — acting strangely.

He’d found a clue.

He took it to an unlikely detective — a whale biologist, Alexandra Morton — who’d be pulled into a battle against government, industry and multinational corporations.

A story like this one should have been a hero’s tale. An Erin Brockovich moment. But it didn’t quite play out that easily.

This is the fascinating story of a 20-year battle to save Canada’s wild salmon.

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