DFO has been in cahoots with, doing free research for, and otherwise promoting fish farms since the get go.
I take pretty much any news from DFO as "fake news".
Truly independent researchers and scientists are needed when dealing with aquaculture related issues.
39 isn't enough. That is why I said there could be 390 independent scientists reviewing this and the anti-FF lobby still won't accept facts. I have challenged everyone on this website to provide the independent researchers that had proven the real harm caused by FF's. We have had claims that FF's are killing as much as 50% of our wild stocks. Wow. Not a single shred of evidence to prove it, but lets claim this. When asked for data to back it up, well that very data might lead us to conclude that runs in the presence of FF's, salmon stocks are improving. The pro-FF lobby is not going to ever make a wild claim that FF's increase the survival of wild salmon, but statistics don't lie.
In the end, an after substantial obfuscation and deflecting, the anti-FF lobby group has produced a series of research documents that proved FF's were safe. It was there productions and to be honest, they haven't really debated the veracity of their own productions. In the cases where an anti-FF advocate had scientific evidence of deadly pathogens, viruses, etc...the results were never able to be confirmed by an
independent third party lab (isn't that what you are asking for).
We have had the Anti-FF lobby claim the decline of the Fraser sockeye is because of FF's. Even when all the science shows a temperature inversion in the ocean caused the mass decline, they still blame the FF. The actual FF researchers have accepted the fact that ocean temps caused the latest declines, but nope, we will state the same thing over and over in hopes it will become a fact.
We have had claims by the anti-FF lobby that farmed salmon isn't safe and was poisonous. Nope, all the research proves this is simply a false statement to keep you all against FF's - lets bend the light around the facts.
Then we get the anti-FF lobby telling us all the scientists are being muzzled. These muzzled scientists give interviews to any media outlet that wants to listen including international papers etc. Well, the government heard them, tested their claims and the evidence is they were false. Yep, they should have been muzzled instead of being allowed to spread false or incomplete science.
I challenge any of you to show me where an anti-FF researcher has concluded the third party lab's purposefully doctored the results or hid the results. There is not a single case of this that I have seen. When a scientist sends several samples (known and unknown) to a lab where there are to confirm the possible existence of a virus and all the known samples test correctly (this establishes the baseline accuracy) but the "salmon farm test" is either inconclusive or negative, it just proves the science of the researcher making the claims was at best premature or simply the result of bad science. Provide me with AM's public statements (or Suzuki's public statements) that the retested FF samples to confirm her positive tests for PVR, or IHNV, or whatever else was part of a government collusion to cover up the truth. She has never said the labs that did the retesting were wrong, instead she made a video about sea lice and started sit-ins at FF's.
Are any of us supposed to believe that if the FF industry was conclusively proven to be safe that the AM's of the world would start supporting this industry?