Salmon Confidential Exposed has posted two new blogs this week:
Dead fish in the parking lot
May 15, 2013
In this section of the film (around the 53-minute mark) we witness a folksy Alexandra Morton cutting samples up on the ground of a parking lot outside a grocery store.
Apparently she and her people have been going into grocery stores that sell farmed salmon, purchasing the fish and then bringing them into a parking lot where they sit on the ground and cut the samples up and put them into containers to send for testing.
Stirling University in Scotland is one of the most respected international universities with an Institute of Aquaculture. They have clear procedures for how to collect samples for scientific testing, and how to pack those samples.
Read the full blog here:
http://salmonconfidential.com/2013/05/15/dead-fish-in-the-parking-lot/
A vet’s perspective
May 16, 2013
When this film aired in Vancouver, Dr. Gary Marty (fish pathologist at the provincial Animal Health Centre, who is interviewed in this film) attended the screening. Here is his response, which came to me via a contact in the salmon farming business. Dr. Marty gave his permission for it to be published.
The virus (ISAV) and the disease (ISA)
All laboratories testing for the disease ISA over the past few years agree on one thing: there are no confirmed cases of ISA in BC salmon.
The OIE requirements for confirming ISA are written by directors of the OIE reference laboratories, including Dr. Fred Kibenge at UPEI (i.e., Alexandra Morton’s veterinarian). The requirements for confirming ISA are excellent. If ISA is present, it is straightforward to confirm; if ISA is not present (e.g., false positive test results), confirmation is extremely difficult.
False positive test results are not a threat to wild salmon.
Read the full blog here:
http://salmonconfidential.com/a-vets-perspective/
