TheBigGuy
Well-Known Member
Can you show me these scientific documentations of ISA (the disease) in Pacific Salmon here in BC? Are you suggesting that these "obviously very sick" fish died from ISA? If so, where is this evidence? Do you have any more information on this "large die-off" you are talking about?
Shuswap, I am personally not into the never ending procession of documentation that your type demand to prove that our wild Salmon are being infected by farmed Salmon. Any laboratory that has dared to report a positive test result of the ISA virus is stripped of their certification, and the government denies the results are valid. Basically, that only leaves the government labs to do the testing, and they won't even allow testing of the farmed Salmon for the virus.
Shuswap, I'm sure you know full well the government doesn't permit the CFIA to perform testing for the virus in live farmed Salmon. To prove a positive result that the government deems acceptable, you need access to the fish in the net pens. Without access to the fish in the farms, proving with 100% certainty to a standard the government will accept is impossible. No fish farm is going to allow an independent organization access to test their infected stock while an outbreak is occurring. If the government refuses to test fish farms for ISA, and independent testing is prohibited by the fish farms, it's a little difficult to get scientific data that the government recognizes as proof. The only testing the government will accept as valid proof of infection needs to be performed on fresh tissue samples from dying ISA virus infected fish. The standard of proof that the government requires is unobtainable from dead Salmon, and live sources are obviously not available.
Tissue testing that Ms. Morton had performed on packaged farmed Salmon purchased from grocery stores returned positives for ISA infections. Samples of dead BC Salmon Ms. Morton collected from our rivers also tested positive for the ISA virus. Of course the government denies that the results prove the Salmon were infected. The government "appropriated" the infected samples from the lab that did the tests for Ms Morton, claiming they were going to retest the samples to confirm the results. When Ms Morton pressed for the results of the government's lab tests, they reluctantly admitted that her samples were never re-tested.
You can read the following articles regarding those ISA test results, and find out what happens to a lab when they dare to report positive results.
http://commonsensecanadian.ca/morton-salmon-virus-lab-stripped-of-world-body-certification/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...d-of-credentials-after-audit/article12977743/
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