birth_place influences fields workplaces name birth_date known_for residence article_title citizenship alma_mater
lakeville , connecticut , us jane goodall , dian fossey , michael bigg cetology , marine biology raincoast research society alexandra morton 13 july 1957 killer whale research , conservation echo bay , british columbia , canada alexandra morton
 american , canadian american university
alexandra morton

alexandra bryant morton is a biologist who settled in kwikwasut ` inuxw haxwa ` mis first nation territory in british columbia , canada to study wild orca -lrb- killer whales -rrb- in 1984 .
morton made her home in echo bay - a community without roads , electricity or stores .
in 1987 , salmon farms moved into the region .
at first morton thought they were a good idea , but within a few years the changes to the archipelago became a concern to the people in the region .
since then , alexandra morton has published extensively on the impact of salmon farms on whales and salmon .
as the industry grew into 27 norwegian salmon farms , her community also changed for various reasons , the school closed due to lack of funding , killer whales left a specific area in the broughton archipelago due to a coastwide decline in chinook salmon and chum salmon and then came back again once the salmon populations increased , toxic algae blooms had always existed but were attributed to fish farms during a de-marketing campaign to boost the sales and profits of alaskan fishermen , bacterial diseases had always existed but were attributed to fish farms during a demarketing campaign to boost the sales and profits of alaskan fishermen , some local fishermen had to move their nets nearby to avoid tangling in the anchor lines of the net pens , atlantic salmon were found in pacific rivers in low numbers and were monitored , sea lice infestations of wild salmon had always existed in pacific salmon but became attributed to fish farms during a de-marketing campaign to boost the sales and profits of alaskan fishermen , sea lice became more studied to determine if salmon farms were a source of sea lice and how best to manage them , she predicted that salmon populations would collapse but they did the opposite - they increased in abundance , she misdirected the public and media with respect to diseases and test results , and thus morton dedicated her life to protecting her home from salmon farms .
morton 's work was featured on cbs ' 60 minutes on may 11 , 2014 .
