Sunday
May202012
BC Salmon Farm Forced to Cull 560,000 fish
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 12:00AM
Atlantic salmon farms around Vancouver Island have begun testing and formed a special outbreak management team after an IHN virus outbreak at one farm led to a site quarantine and the cull of more than half a million fish.
IHN usually kills a fish within a week of exposure and can kill up to 100 percent of an infected population.
LINK (via: The Winnepeg Free Press)
Here is what happened when the IHN virus made it's way into Chilean hatcheries.
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