CFIA fires back on salmon study
CKNW AM 980, Charmaine de Silva, 11/8/2011
A month after an S-F-U researcher announced the discovery of a lethal and contagious salmon virus in two sockeye smolts, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and department of fisheries and oceans is firing back.
The discovery of infectious salmon anaemia was used as part of a call to remove Atlantic salmon from BC salmon farms.
But now the CFIA's Con Kiley says the dfo's tests haven't found the same results.
Kiley says there have been no confirmed cases of infection salmon anaemia in wild or farmed salmon in British Columbia.
Kiley says that's backed up by an independent lab in Norway.
As for the research by an SFU prof that found the virus, the province's Doctor Paul Kitching says its not good science.
