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#913758 - 11/21/14 09:19 AM What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon?
Phoenix77 Offline
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What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon?

What is killing BC’s wild salmon? Anyone simply looking for proof salmon farms are infecting wild salmon will find enough five minutes into Twyla Roscovich’s documentary “Salmon Confidential Documentary.” The evidence is laid so convincingly that one is tempted to turn the video off. That would be a mistake. Salmon Confidential Documentary follows biologist Alexandra Morton, as she seeks the cause of the massive salmon die-offs before they can spawn. As she gets closer to the answer, the question becomes why is the Department of Fisheries and Oceans not doing something about it?
http://planetsave.com/2014/11/20/killing-bcs-wild-salmon/
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#913789 - 11/21/14 05:54 PM Re: What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon? [Re: Phoenix77]
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According to the NW Fishletter #339 November 21, 2014:

B.C. Salmon Get Clean Bill Of Health

After testing more than 8,000 samples from all wild salmon and steelhead species in British Columbia waters, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has found no sign of the dreaded infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus in any of them, the agency announced Nov. 10.

Testing of U.S. fish by the U.S. Geological Survey and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife had come up with similar results last year. (An article that documents the U.S. response to date has just been published in Fisheries. It is available here.)

The intense two-year testing program in B.C. was put in place after Canadian environmentalists claimed that the virus was found in local salmon, and used an October 2011 press conference and the cachet of Simon Fraser University to push their findings. Their results were later discounted, and the well-known lab that had claimed to detect the virus, was discredited.

The ISA virus, which is deadly to farmed Atlantic salmon, has shown up from time to time at fish farms in eastern Canada, Chile and Europe, but has never been detected at fish farms in British Columbia.

A media campaign waged by environmental groups opposed to fish farming led to a frenzied response by some U.S. politicians. Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell (D) called for quick study and a testing program to insure the safety of wild stocks south of the border. The testing failed to show any trace of the virus.

Soon after fish farming opponent Alexandra Morton claimed that ISA virus had been found in juvenile sockeye samples, critics said her group's lax sampling procedures could lead to contaminated samples. It eventually turned out that the internationally respected lab that tested those samples had problems of its own.

The CFIA report noted that its own samples "were collected, handled, transported, and stored so as to maintain sample integrity. Only samples that were collected in a way that maintained chain of custody and were tested by a CFIA-approved laboratory or one of the three laboratories in the [Department of Fisheries and Oceans] National Aquatic Animal Health Laboratories System (NAAHLS) using validated tests can be used towards the substantiation of the presence of a regulated disease."

The Canadians also tested their fish samples for two other viruses, infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) and infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN). IHN has been known to occur in B.C. wild fish before, but IPN and ISA have never been detected. None of the 8,000 samples showed any trace of the three pathogens.

"The CFIA is committed to protecting fish health--both wild and farmed," said Dr. Ian Alexander, executive director of the CFIA's Animal Health Science Directorate, in a Nov. 8 statement. "These collective findings are good news for the aquatic industry in B.C. and the Canadian economy as a whole. We will continue to keep Canadians informed of our work surrounding this important Canadian resource."

The agency's report also said that targeted levels of testing for the IHN virus in mature salmon species had not been met, so data was too scarce to make interpretations about that virus on these populations. But more samples would be gathered.

The CFIA said archived wild samples collected in 2012 and 2013 will also be tested for the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus and the salmonid alphavirus "to support safe domestic and international trade. An implementation plan for 2014-2016 calls for additional surveillance in B.C. farmed salmon."

The food inspection agency collaborated with other federal agencies, a commercial fishing company, First Nations, and conservation groups in the survey. But some groups are not satisfied. On Oct. 28, the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity released a statement that said more than a dozen British Columbia Indian Nations, along with 16 fishing and salmon conservation groups on both sides of the border in Canada called for a NAFTA environmental commission to investigate Canada's failure to protect wild salmon from disease and parasites from industrial fish farms in British Columbia.

According to their statement, "The Canadian Food Inspection Agency also revealed recently that there has been no follow-up testing on the deadly ISA fish virus, despite positive test results in samples of British Columbia farmed salmon."

A spokesman for the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association said there has been no recent testing that has found ISA virus in farmed B.C. salmon, so the CBD's statement must be referring to the earlier testing that was never validated by the CFIA.

Activist Morton, who had originally claimed that the ISA virus had been found in samples of farmed B.C. salmon bought at supermarkets, said on her blog that "There has to be a technical reason why so many labs have reported ISA virus positive results in salmon from BC, but the CFIA's position is that new tests contravene earlier reports by some of the same labs.

"If the CFIA provided information on their method of testing for ISA virus in BC perhaps we could reconcile these differences." -B. R.

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#913796 - 11/21/14 07:35 PM Re: What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon? [Re: geljockey]
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gee, could it be that wild steelhead don't like being spoon hooked? then gawked at for glory pics then released? let go thinking they be fine cause they swam way.
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#913800 - 11/21/14 08:17 PM Re: What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon? [Re: Brewer]
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A high quality non sequitur right there, Ralph.

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#913814 - 11/22/14 12:02 AM Re: What is Killing BC’s Wild Salmon? [Re: AP a.k.a. Kaiser D]
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Ooh non sequitur was one of my favorite blends from mcrea cellars in the early 2000s.

Back to the point. Salmon farms are pokq dotted all thru the georgia and johnston straits. Concentrations of farmed salmon up in those narrows straights attract mega concentrations of sea lice. Migrating wild juvenile salmon pass thru concentrations and there goes a decent percentage of survival to adult rates. One of the factors anyhow...
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