This morning the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development issued her Independent Auditor’s Report on salmon farming. The audit looked at whether Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) manage the risks associated with open net-pen salmon farming in a manner that protected wild fish. The Commissioner identified risks […]
Dr. Kristi Miller (and co-authors) has reported in a published paper that piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) and associated disease symptoms of Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation (HSMI) and jaundice are present on B.C. salmon farms.
Scientists and experts from academia, First Nations, industry, non-profit organizations and government from Western Canada, Atlantic Canada, Norway, Ireland, Iceland and the US met and pooled expertise to assess the status of Pacific Salmon, and to advance opportunities for science-based management to address their multiple stressors.
Read the whole story on the CBC: New research suggests wild salmon exposed to fish farms have ‘much higher’ rate of viral infection.