Deadly virus appears in Washington state salmon farm – Pacific Fishing

Pacific Fishing, 25th May 2012 A virus has infected a Bainbridge Island salmon farm, forcing the owners to begin culling and destroying infected fish. It’s the same disease – infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, or IHNV – that caused a British Columbia salmon farm to destroy 560,000 fish last week. The fish ended up in a [...]

Island fish farm gets rid of all its quarantined fish – Vancouver Sun

Tofino is not that far away as the water flows… ———————————————— A Vancouver Island salmon farm says it has now emptied a site that was quarantined because of a virus. Mainstream Canada announced last week that tests confirmed the presence of an infectious virus known as IHN at its Dixon Bay site, north of Tofino. [...]

Marine Anemia Cover Up in B.C.

This just in from Alexandra Morton, the leading scientist opposing net pen aquaculture. If you have any question about the safety of net pen aquaculture, or the lengths that entrenched bureaucracy will go to support the unsupportable, then not only read the info below, but follow the link to Morton’s web site and read the [...]

Virus causing salmon deaths in BC?

Virus causing salmon deaths? By ROB HOTAKAINEN; Staff writer WASHINGTON – In Canada’s Fraser River, a mysterious illness has killed millions of Pacific salmon, and scientists have a new hypothesis about why: The wild salmon are suffering from viral infections similar to those linked to some forms of leukemia and lymphoma. For 60 years before [...]