Pure Salmon Campaign and Wild Salmon Circle will attempt to hand-deliver a letter to the king, asking him to push Norwegian-controlled salmon farms to take up better management practices and shift growing to closed-containment systems.

"The presence of the King of Norway in Canada for the Olympics represents a unique opportunity to tell the world to help stop the killing of wild fish by Norwegian-owned open net cage salmon farms," Pure Salmon Campaign activisit Don Staniford told IntraFish on Friday.

"Norwegian-owned companies control over 90 percent of B.C.'s