Bug hunters gone wild and now exposed…you’ll understand, read on…
Blog: The Truth About Alaska Salmon,June 21, 2013
Well, it took a bit of prodding by the Aquaculture Awareness Association (AAA) of Canada, but finally the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) went public with their decision on the erroneous salmon virus testing results reported by a laboratory in Eastern Canada.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has been following this story closely for the last few years; a couple of activists from British Columbia (where most activists seem to live outside of California) reported in 2011 that a foreign fish virus called Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) was wreaking havoc in Pacific coast waters.
Shock. Horror. Anger. Lynching?
But in the end, it was all false. “False positives” to be exact.
For more information about the games played by these activists, see this entertaining blog published by AAA.
But these activist “games” have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Alaska, Washington and British Columbia have now tested thousands of wild, hatchery produced and farm raised salmon to confirm that the original results were indeed “false positives”. All test have proven negative.
Then, in late 2012, came news that the OIE Reference Laboratory (the only lab to report a preliminary positive finding of ISA) was audited for quality by the OIE, and failed two separate audits. The OIE was to make a decision on the fate of the lab’s OIE designation last month (May 2013).
Not surprisingly, one has to be actually good at performing fish virology tests to operate a fish virology lab. Who knew?
Today, Seafood Intelligence announced that they have received confirmation from the OIE that the Atlantic Veterinary College, run by Fred Kibenge, has been stripped of its OIE Reference Lab classification:
“In May 2013 The World Assembly of national Delegates of the OIE (178 countries) approved by unanimity the delisting of the OIE Reference Laboratory for Infectious Salmon Anaemia located at Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) in Canada on the basis of the results of the OIE audit conducted with independent experts from 31 July to 2 August 2012.”
Now here’s a great idea; how about these two activists and the crap laboratory pay back millions in wasted taxpayer’s money spent chasing these insistent little bug hunters?
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