Of all the things I describe about salmon farming in my new book Not on My Watch, the disease outbreaks, sea lice infestations, subversion of science, rubber-kneed politicians, catastrophic damage to wild salmon, the First Nation uprising... the one thing the industry has managed to respond to is my description of being followed by a company called Black Cube.
They complain that when I describe how Mowi hired a company called Black Cube to follow me that I describe what world knows as Black Cube. See below a screenshot of their somewhat sinister website. As you will see below, a business licence was issued for Black Cube to operate in Campbell River just before guys in boats with black windows (pictures below) started following me. Mowi admitted that they had hired a company called Black Cube but they claim, it was not THE Black Cube... Why not just hire an already existing Campbell River security firm? Why was a licence purchased for a new company called Black Cube?
If you call yourself Black Cube and you act like Black Cube, is it any wonder that people think that you are Black Cube?
In addition to Black Cube, I describe how:
- DFO threatened to arrest me for collecting lice-encrusted fish they asked me to catch for them,
- the Province of BC tried to pass a law - anyone testing farm animals for disease would be fined $75,000 and two years in prison - when I detected a reportable virus in farm salmon,
- the Canadian Food inspection Agency refused to allow a lab to send me test result of BC farm salmon that I had paid for
- and when the industry moved into the 100 year old floathouse community of Echo Bay, the Province of BC decided tenures would be granted to salmon farmers, but not to local residents and so our floathouses became illegal and our town was extinguished.
This is how salmon farming got into BC waters - NOT ON MY WATCH