SOS In the News

Teresa Bird
July 22nd, 2009
North Island Gazette

What do a marine biologist, an NHL hockey player and an Alberta businessman all have in common? Salmon.

The three – Jackie Hildering, Willie Mitchell and Eric Hobson – are all part of Save Our Salmon Initiative (SOS), looking at business solutions to the negative environmental impacts of open net-cage salmon farming. Hildering is part of SOS’s four-member staff, serving as communications director. Raised in Port McNeill, Vancouver Canuck Mitchell joined the nine-person solutions advisory committee two years ago. Hobson is the founder of the organization.

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