{"id":9406,"date":"2010-06-09T16:33:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:33:38","slug":"shatner-backs-bid-to-protect-wild-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/shatner-backs-bid-to-protect-wild-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Backs Bid To Protect Wild Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> support a British Columbia bill to protect wild salmon on British Columbia&#8217;s west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner will call in from Los Angeles tomorrow to a press conference organized by the New Democratic Party (NDP) to voice his support for the bill.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shatner0609101.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9408\" title=\"Shatner060910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shatner0609101.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The proposed bill would require the Pacific salmon-farming industry to move its operations from coastal waters to closed containment. This move is meant to keep sea lice, who are blamed for a decline in the salmon population, from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>NDP&#8217;s <strong>Fin Donnelly<\/strong> introduced the bill, and convinced Shatner to speak in its behalf. &#8220;I phoned him and told him about this bill that I have got to move to closed containment to protect wild salmon on the west coast and he was happy to help,&#8221; said Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner once mentioned salmons rights in a tweet, and an episode of <em>Boston Legal<\/em> in which he appeared (<em>Finding Nimmo<\/em>) addressed the problem of sea lice and salmon population decline. Shatner began working with some of the British Columbia activists after this episode and wrote Prime Minister <strong>Stephen Harper<\/strong> regarding the salmon farms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s taken a stand on it,&#8221; said Donnelly, &#8221; and he&#8217;s willing to work with us on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner support a British Columbia bill to protect wild salmon on British Columbia&#8217;s west&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3263,2414],"class_list":["post-9406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-boston-legal","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}