CFIA orders ISA infected salmon destroyed

They will now destroy the remaining ISA-infected ones that didn't somehow mysteriously escape and infect the wild salmon in the adjacent systems on the South Coast of NFLD....

Ya - as Cooke spokesperson Nell Halse said. "While it will have a short-term impact in Newfoundland, overall in our business it's not going to have a negative impact in the marketplace. We'll still be able to serve our customers and meet their requirements..."

"short-term impact in Newfoundland"...for the company - that is. I guess once the ISA-infected wild stocks die - that'd be a "short-term" impact,as well. Just goes to show you how these company hacks think...
 
CFIA depopulation order = compensation, no? = Merry Xmas, Cooke.

Layoffs at company's Newfoundland plant = Merry Xmas, Hermitage Bay.
 
who cares about Christmas for fish farmers ? until they put it on land they should all be out of work.
 
Usually when the CFIA orders a farm to destroy its stock for any reason. The farm is compensated with Canadian Tax dollars. Merry X-Mas!!!
 
Ripcurl said:
Usually when the CFIA orders a farm to destroy its stock for any reason. The farm is compensated with Canadian Tax dollars. Merry X-Mas!!!
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Got a link for that, Rc?
I certainly hope that isn't true.
 
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From CFIA website
March 7, 2012: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed infectious salmon anaemia at a commercial aquaculture facility in Nova Scotia.......

A quarantine remains on the facility to control movements of people, vessels, equipment and fish onto or off of the site. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will order salmon from the affected cage to be humanely destroyed and disposed of, with compensation paid to the owner.
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http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/news-releases/infectious-salmon-anaemia/eng/1331155048243/1331155084131

What kind of money are we talking about.... this link shows us...
http://asf.ca/more-than-33m-compensation-paid-in-nl-for-salmon-farm-error.html
 
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GLG said:
From CFIA website

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/news-releases/infectious-salmon-anaemia/eng/1331155048243/1331155084131

What kind of money are we talking about.... this link shows us...
http://asf.ca/more-than-33m-compensation-paid-in-nl-for-salmon-farm-error.html
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Thanks GLG....Unbelievable...this taken from the first link.

"As a precautionary disease control measure, the owner of the facility chose to euthanize two pens containing affected salmon when the disease was first suspected.
The Government of Canada appreciates the proactive approach taken by the company following the suspect finding. Their actions are an excellent example of how the industry takes their responsibility for fish health and these situations seriously."

Hahahaha! Seeing that we are paying for it that's a real responsible and proactive approach. What a joke.
 
Pretty sad when the gov will bail out these farms yet can't find any money for hatcheries or habitat restoration.
 
fish4all said:
Pretty sad when the gov will bail out these farms yet can't find any money for hatcheries or habitat restoration.
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I agree very sad. The Feds have lots of money they could put into hatcheries and habitat restoration (billions of it) it is just not a priority for them. We the people need to make it a priority to them and only then will things will change.
 
Whole in the Water said:
I agree very sad. The Feds have lots of money they could put into hatcheries and habitat restoration (billions of it) it is just not a priority for them. We the people need to make it a priority to them and only then will things will change.
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We need to get rid of Harper and the Con-men ASAP!
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/where-have-750-000-farmed-salmon-gone-1.2426388
Where have 750,000 farmed salmon gone?
DFO confirms escaped fish found in nine rivers on Newfoundland's south coast
CBC News Posted: Nov 14, 2013 2:18 PM NT Last Updated: Nov 14, 2013 2:18 PM NT

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Outfitters say farmed salmon are showing up as far west as Grandy's River, near Burgeo, on Newfoundland's south coast. (CBC)

Concern is escalating on Newfoundland's south coast about the effect escaped farmed fish will have on the wild salmon population.

Fishermen say farmed salmon are showing up as far west as the Grandy River, near Burgeo.

Tony Tuck, who runs a fishing lodge near the Grey River on the south coast, fears fish farming is harming wild salmon.

He believes sea lice infestations at fish farms are killing young, wild salmon.

"[The] vicinity around the sea cages is heavily infested with sea lice ... and the sea lice gets on these smolt and kills them."

More than 750,000 salmon have escaped from sea cages on the south coast since fish farming started, and DFO has confirmed that farmed salmon are now in nine south coast rivers.

Don Ivany of the Atlantic Salmon Federation said no one knows what's happened to them.

"DFO doesn't have an ongoing monitoring program on all the other rivers, and given the large number of escapes that have occurred down there recently, farmed fish may be in other rivers such as Grandy and Grey River, and others if you looked," said Ivany.

Ivany said the situation is out of control, and added the solution is land-based, contained fish farming.
 
Yet Another Farm Outbreak of ISA in NL that is Deadly to Wild Salmon
CBC News
CFIA orders ISA infected salmon destroyed
Harbour Breton plant shutting down for extended period

Nov 08, 2013 5:48 PM NT

Cooke Aquaculture is shutting down its Harbour Breton salmon processing plant in the wake of an order by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to destroy a large number of its ISA-infected salmon, CBC News has learned.

CFIA previously confirmed the ISA outbreak at the company's Hermitage Bay facility back in June, but the company had hoped to grow out and process some of the stock.

Cooke spokesperson Nell Halse said this latest depopulation order now means there won't be enough market-sized salmon currently available to operate the Harbour Breton plant.

"We brought in our employees yesterday and they have been given notification of a layoff. It's really all about loss of fish, or lack of market-ready salmon to go through the plant," Halse told The Fisheries Broadcast.

"Really, our hope had been we would have been able to grow the rest of the fish out to be able to market and harvest them. But we had been experiencing some mortalities and so we now have this depopulation order."

Halse said the company will be forced to depopulate two cages at the site, but she couldn't say how many fish were affected, only that the number was "certainly significant for our Newfoundland operations."

"Overall its less than three per cent of our whole volume for North America," Halse said. "While it will have a short-term impact in Newfoundland, overall in our business it's not going to have a negative impact in the marketplace. We'll still be able to serve our customers and meet their requirements. It's an unfortunate circumstance that we are dealing with right now."

It's been suggested that the shutdown of the Harbour Breton plant could last up to six months or more, but Halse said the company wasn't entirely sure when the plant might get back up and running.

"It's a temporary situation," she said. "We are not sure how long this will be. But we are certainly working to be able to process again as soon as possible."
 
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Proposed "Threatened" Status for Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland's South Coast
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Don Ivany discusses in a radio interview the challenges facing Atlantic salmon, as the Federal Government is calling for public comment in the Species at Risk (SARA) process:
http://asf.ca/asf-s-ivany-on-the-situation-of-south-coast-nl-atlantic-sal.html

Public Comment Period Until Dec. 15 - Threatened Status, southern NL
ASF background documents associated with the THREATENED Listing Process in southern Newfoundland are brought together on a single web page. This includes
An overview of the SARA Process
The Recovery Potential Assessment (RPA) for southern Newfoundland
A DFO 2-pager with details on how to provide your comments
Maps of the "groupings" of rivers that have been used in the SARA process.
 
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