Shatner's latest mission: remove fish farms

Judith Lavoie
July 31, 2009
Times Colonist

William Shatner: TV show leads to letter for PM.
 
He boldly went where no man has gone before on Star Trek. He won three Emmys for Boston Legal. And now William Shatner has taken on a new challenge: B.C.'s fish farms.

The actor, an avid sports fisherman, has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking that salmon farms be removed from wild-salmon migration routes in the Broughton and Discovery islands. Shatner, who filmed an episode of the Boston Legal series in the Broughton Archipelago off northern Vancouver Island, says in his letter that salmon farms are having a disastrous impact on "one of Earth's most precious assets, the wild salmon and steelhead of B.C."

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