Some more reading for our newest member and the others to pick apart.
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Please find enclosed a press update including:
"Pacific Salmon Think Tank" (Wilderness Committee, 1st December):
http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/event/pacific_salmon_think_tank "Alliance: Aquaculture pesticides threaten wild fisheries" (The Chronicle Herald, 1st December):
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/38496-alliance-aquaculture-pesticides-threaten-wild-fisheries "Leaked: Nearly decade-old positive tests for salmon virus" (Alaska Dispatch, 1st December):
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/leaked-nearly-decade-old-positive-tests-salmon-virus "Canada covers up the presence of salmon virus on the West coast" (Alaska Native News, 1st December):
http://www.alaska-native-news.com/article/State_News/State_News/Canada_Covers_Up_the_Presence_of_Salmon_Virus_on_the_West_Coast/23786 "Research finding ISA a decade ago was 'covered up'" (FIS, 1st December):
http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=&day=1&id=48096&l=e&special=&ndb=1%20target= "Salmongate phase two" (Salmon Warriors, 30th November):
http://salmonwarriors.blogspot.com/2011/11/salmongate-phase-two-covering-up-cover.html "Canadian government still working to legalize toxic pesticide use in salmon farming" (Farmed & Dangerous, 30th November):
http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/newsletter/2011/11/3785/#pathogens "Report indicates seven-year coverup of Infectious Salmon Anemia in BC salmon" (The Tyee, 30th November):
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/11/30/infectious_salmon_anemia/ "BC Cover-up Questions the Dual Mandate of U.S. and Canadian Salmon Management" (Fly Rod & Reel Online, 30th November):
http://www.flyrodreel.com/blogs/tedwilliams/2011/november/questions-salmon-management "A Secret About Salmon Virus" (Southern Fried Science, 30th November):
http://salmon.southernfriedscience.com/?p=301 "U.S. senator slams Canadian officials over lack of communication on salmon virus" (Global News/The Canadian Press/Toronto Star, 30th November):
http://www.globaltoronto.com/canada/us+senator+slams+canadian+officials+over+lack+of+communication+on+salmon+virus/6442532381/story.html "U.S.: Canada hid salmon virus for 10 years" (United Press International, 30th November):
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/11/30/US-Canada-hid-salmon-virus-for-10-years/UPI-92651322680349/ "Did ISA exist off B.C. coast as early as 2002?" (Seafood Source, 30th November):
http://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=13082 "Salmon Virus Controversy: For 2nd time, salmon virus information withheld in Canada" (NPR/Associated Press/KPLU, 30th November):
http://www.kplu.org/post/2nd-time-salmon-virus-information-withheld-canada "Salmon Virus Cover Up? Blame Canada!" (The Sun Break, 30th November):
http://thesunbreak.com/2011/11/30/salmon-virus-cover-up-blame-canada/ "More Reports Of ISA In Wild And Farmed Salmon Uncovered" (OPB News, 30th November):
http://news.opb.org//article/more-reports-isa-wild-and-farmed-salmon-uncovered/ "Scientists at odds over B.C. coast salmon virus" (CBC News, 30th November):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/30/bc-scientists-salmon-virus-paper.html "Risk of Atlantic salmon colonization in B.C." (Mainstream Canada, 30th November):
http://www.mainstreamcanada.com/risk-atlantic-salmon-colonization-bc "More louse trouble for Eastern fish farmer" (Fish Farming Xpert, 30th November):
http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=93225 "Scottish salmon firm profits sink" (BBC News, 30th November):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-15963958 "Layoffs hopefully temporary say Marine Harvest reps" (The Courier-Islander, 30th November):
http://www2.canada.com/courierislander/news/story.html?id=537cd1f1-9b85-4bb2-8f75-2026ecde7a39 "Fish health manual launched for Irish salmonid farming industry" (Fish News EU, 30th November):
http://www.fishnewseu.com/latest-news/world/7173-fish-health-manual-launched-for-irish-salmonid-farming-industry.html "Aquaculture luncheon packed" (The Courier-Islander, 30th November):
http://www2.canada.com/courierislander/story.html?id=1b38f00d-4ad0-49d2-8784-c46d9bbe87c4 "True colors are green" (The Courier-Islander, 30th November):
http://www.canada.com/True+colors+green/5788597/story.html "Eviction post cards to be delivered to salmon farming companies" (Farmed & Dangerous, 30th November):
http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/newsletter/2011/11/3785/#postcards "Marine Harvest cuts 60 jobs in Canada" (Seafood Source, 29th November):
http://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=13076 Including from today's Alaska Native News:
"If it weren't for the October scare involving the Salmon Virus, the world would probably never known about the results of work done a decade earlier on the subject. It was the October revelation that the Atlantic Salmon virus had jumped oceans to the Pacific. It was then that we found out that that news is about 10 years too late...... So, why would the Canadian government cover up the fact that there was a paper on the subject of the Salmon virus in the Pacific? The main reason would be that if the presence of the virus was confirmed in the West Coast waters, the Canadian government would have no choice to report that presence to the World Organization for Animal Health. Reporting this information would be devastating to Canada's Aquaculture industry."
From today's Alaska Dispatch (quoting The Seattle Times):
"We had no knowledge of any of this," said Jim Winton, a top fish virologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Seattle, who reviewed the researcher's findings this week. "No one ever revealed that there was a publication that was ready to go to a journal or that the data were as compelling as they appear to be. This is puzzling and very frustrating. It's unfortunate that this information was not available sooner. This should have been followed up years ago."
Ted Meyers, Alaska's chief fish pathologist, agreed. "If it were my lab," he said, "we would have looked a lot more thoroughly before we let 10 years pass. I have great respect for the scientists at Fisheries and Oceans, but I think sometimes the politicians get in the way."
And from Ivan Doumenc writing in 'Salmongate phase two':
"The only way that our public agencies can now sustain their broken defense system that "there is no ISA in BC" is if they somehow manage to suppress any further independent testing performed on behalf of private citizens such as Alexandra Morton. And to their credit they have succeed in Canada, as in this country today, quite shamefully, no labs will accept any samples from individuals and independent groups. But how do they intend to prevent other labs worldwide to conduct such tests? In particular, how do they plan to tame American labs after headlines such as those of the Seattle Times?"
Please note the 'Scientists' Think Tank' tonight (7pm) in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre, Room 1900, 515 West Hastings St) – details online here
Note that on 15th & 16th December there will be an ISA hearing at the Cohen Commission – details online here (more background here).
Read the leaked Canadian Government report detailing over 100 positive tests for ISA in farmed Atlantic and wild Pacific salmon – online via 'Fishyleaks
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For background on the global spread of ISA read "ISA: Diary of Disease Disaster" and "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse" – online via:
http://www.wildsalmonfirst.org/fish-farmageddon-infectious-salmon-aquacalypse Read the official reports from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the second case of ISA in coho salmon in the Fraser River - online here
Read the report from the OIE Reference Laboratory on the positive samples in Fraser River chinook and chum – online here
Read the first official report of the European strain of ISA in sockeye salmon in Rivers Inlet on the Central Coast - online here
Read the Norwegian laboratory report on the 6th and 7th positive tests for ISA in Fraser River coho and sockeye – online here
More details via "Chronology of a Cover-Up in Canada: ISA in British Columbia"
Best fishes,
Don