bigdogeh
Well-Known Member
Not good. 100% of the escaped atlantics tested positive for PRV....Norwegian strain. Here is the press release...
http://wildfishconservancy.org/february-15th-prv-press-release/at_download/file
Wow, pretty eye opening. Why is it that those down south are taking this seriously and getting rid of these wild salmon killing factories and our leaders are continuing to support them?
And who would have thought that the FF spokesman would lie to us? say it isn't so...lol. Their whole industry is based on lies.
Just a portion of the article: (hate it when some links have a tendency to disappear over time.)
"significantly more wild salmon were infected with PRV if they had been exposed to salmon farms than if they were located faraway.
Peer-reviewed science also shows us that even without the occurrence of HSMI, PRV can negatively impact a salmon’s ability to compete and survive in the wild.
As PRV builds up in a salmon’s red blood cells, the virus may reduce the amount of oxygen cells can transport to the fish’s muscles, 6 lowering the fish’s performance. For a wild fish, reduced performance means a reduced ability to capture prey, evade predators, and swim upriver to spawn.
Statistical analysis conducted by WFC ecologist Dr. Nick Gayeski suggests the disease is highly prevalent in escaped farmed salmon from Cypress Island. “Based on the results of this sampling,” Dr. Gayeski said,
“I estimate that more than 99.9% of the 260,000+ fish that escaped from the Cypress Island net pen are infected with PRV.
For all practical purposes, all of the
escaped fish are most likely infected with the PRV virus.”
The independent lab results corroborate Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) recently released report detailing their own findings of PRV-positive Atlantic salmon originating from Cooke Aquaculture’s Cypress Island net pen facility.
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Yet during a January 30th press conference announcing a state agency investigative report into the Cypress Island spill, a spokeswoman for WDFW, who acted as incident commander and co-authored the report, contradicted the report’s own findings, stating:
“The released fish... were healthy at the time of release. Of the escaped fish, there was no disease. No endemic bacterial, viral, or parasitic (including sea lice) pathogens were detected
at the time of release.”
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Amy Windrope, North Puget Sound Regional Director
“I’m outraged,” said Kurt Beardslee, executive director of Wild Fish Conservancy. “
The Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound net pens originate from Norway, and we now know they are highly infected with a harmful virus from Norway.
I’m outraged this disease is being amplified into our public waters, and I’m outraged our state agencies are willfully misleading the public.
When the public finds out about this atrocity, they will be outraged as well.Wild salmon are the
environmental, social, economic, and cultural cornerstone of this region, we can't afford to put them at greater risk. We need to take corrective actions and remove this dangerous industry from Puget Sound before it’s too late.”
The lab work presents another stunning revelation, finding the strain of PRV present in 100% of the tested samples to be of Norwegian origin.
This discovery raises immediate concerns as to whether Cooke Aquaculture is placing infected Atlantic salmon into open-water net pens in our public waters.
In British Columbia, a recent lawsuit provided that many BC salmon farms are being stocked by salmon infected with PRV.
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In one instance, British Columbia’s predominant Atlantic salmon net pen company conceded that 5 out of 6 of their hatcheries were infected with PRV
thxs for keeping us informed rockdog, AA, and others
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