November 27, 2014
US Study Finds Washington to Alaska Coasts ISA Free
Fish Site, 27 November 2014
US - After more than 2,000 tests of wild and farmed salmon in Washington and Alaska, scientists have found no evidence of the Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) virus in Pacific waters.
U.S. Response to a Report of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus in Western North America
Fisheries, Volume 39, Issue 11, 2014
Kevin H. Amos, Lori Gustafson, Janet Warg, Janet Whaley, Maureen Purcell, Jill Rolland, James Winton, Kevin Snekvik, Theodore Meyers, Bruce Stewart, John Kerwin, Marilyn Blair, Joel Baderi & Joy Evered - pages 501-506
This article documents how national and regional fishery managers and fish health specialists of the U.S. worked together and planned and implemented actions in response to the reported finding of ISAV in British Columbia. To date, the reports by Simon Fraser University remain unconfirmed and preliminary results from collaborative U.S. surveillance indicate that there is no evidence of ISAV in U.S. populations of free-ranging or marine-farmed salmonids on the west coast of North America.
NW Fishletter #339 November 21, 2014
B.C. Salmon Get Clean Bill Of Health
After testing more than 8,000 samples from all wild salmon and steelhead species in British Columbia waters, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has found no sign of the dreaded infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus in any of them, the agency announced Nov. 10.
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Years of fish sampling confirms campaign of bullshit by Canadian University
Posted by Alaska Salmon Ranching on Monday, November 24, 2014
The headline on October 18, 2011, read “Wild B.C. salmon test positive for ‘lethal’ virus linked to fish farms.” This headline was the result of a well-orchestrated campaign of bullshit by Simon Fraser University and two of its activist researchers. A “special” press release was even held to communicate the duo’s findings – that they found Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) in a couple of fish in the Pacific Northwest. They were wrong: the tests were never confirmed positive and therefore there was nothing to “link” to fish farms. What a hoax. What an expensive hoax – one planned by two fools who are paid to attack fish farming.
