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Entries in farmed salmon sucks (15)

Thursday
Jul252013

Asking Norway about the Piscine Reovirus

Industry and government deny the piscine reovirus (PRV) is anything to be concerned about, even though this newly introduced, highly infectious virus from Norway has infected the majority of the salmon farms in BC and is rapidly spreading to BC’s wild salmon.

Thursday
May232013

Marine Harvest denies they put diseased fish into BC waters 

A message from Alexandra Morton.

Tuesday
May142013

Vancouver Island salmon farm accused of putting diseased fish in ocean pens

Mmmm, tasty farmed fish.

Environmentalists are accusing a Vancouver Island salmon farm of putting diseased fish into ocean pens, in contravention of federal laws.

Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Vancouver Island biologist Alexandra Morton, launched a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada Wednesday challenging aquaculture licences given to companies believed to have put diseased fish in the water.

LINK (via:Times Colonist)

Thursday
Oct112012

Captain Condom Says:

"Use your head - Stop dicking around with our wild salmon!"

LINK

Wednesday
Aug152012

B.C. fish farms to kill 300,000 salmon

Another day, another fish farm FUBAR.

Two B.C. fish farms have received orders from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to kill more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon after the IHN virus was confirmed at both sites.

LINK (via: CTV News)

Saturday
Jul212012

Parasite Ridden Salmon Sold in B.C. Stores

Salmon farming giant Marine Harvest is having an issue with a flesh-eating myxosporean parasite called Kudoa thyrsitesKudoa causes post-mortem myoliquefaction (soft-flesh syndrome) in farmed salmon on sale in supermarkets and is causing a financial loss for Marine Harvest.

Costco’s manager admitted on the hidden camera that 1 out of every 200 fillets of farmed salmon on sale is infected with the parasite Kudoa.  “Some are more mushy than others,” he said.  “Some you pick up and they’re like paste.  Once every couple of days we get a few like this.”

According to Marine Harvest's annual report they spent 12 million dollars last year to get rid of infected fish and provide refunds.

LINK (via: Super Heroes for Salmon)

If liquified parasitic salmon at your local BC Costco was not bad enough.....

Norwegian fish farm virus found in BC fresh water lake.