Well - I gotta really thank Birdie & bones this time.
Instead of accepting that the most plausible answer as to how a virus - closely related to the NORWEGIAN strain - would likely have come via NORWEGIAN brood stock for the NORWEGIAN FF industry - they instead want posters on this forum to PROVE that the FF industry did NOT bring the PRv virus to BC and instead suggest that maybe - just maybe - a flying fish flew over the mountains from the East Coast and brought it here instead.
What utter bunk. I would be ashamed to suggest such a ridiculous theory. I can only believe that they too don't really believe anyone but the defensive FF PR industry led by Marty would expect anyone but an uniformed and naive public to believe that. Doubt is truly their product.
Anyone who knows how environmental assessments work would already know that it is always up to industry to prove that they aren't having an impact - and if they do - to mitigate and compensate. Any suggestion is shifting the burden of proof in an attempt to shift the narrative around accountability.
Yes - it was likely flying fish - in the form of broodstock eggs for FFs on the West Coast - that was the most plausible source of PRv for the West Coast - which has now infected wild stocks since the open net-cage technology cannot mitigate the wild/cultured stock interactions.
see: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188690
nothing fogged in?? your posting pictures and making claims against industry and you cant back yourself?so the first photos have nothing to do with disease. took you a few posts to figure that out. can you please name the diseases you have shown, on farmed salmon?
Meador’s first study found that the survival rate of juvenile chinook that smolted in contaminated estuaries of rivers flowing into Puget Sound was cut in half compared with juveniles coming from a relatively uncontaminated natal estuary. Let me repeat that: Survival rate is cut in half.
Shows just how susceptible the smolts are to pollution. All the more reason to remove the sea lice infested, virus laden and disease spreading open net cage fish farms out of their migration routes wouldn't you agree?In a third study (click link below to download), released this past April, Meador’s team found that the contaminants were also causing metabolic dysfunction, which “may result in early mortality or an impaired ability to compete for limited resources.” Again, Meador noted that metabolic dysfunction induced by CEC contamination could contribute to the two-fold reduction in the survival rate of these juvenile chinook, compared with chinook migrating from the uncontaminated estuaries, that he had found in his first study.
Sure, but just like the activists here require, do you have any peer reviewed papers that support diseases or transfer?Shows just how susceptible the smolts are to pollution. All the more reason to remove the sea lice infested, virus laden and disease spreading open net cage fish farms out of their migration routes wouldn't you agree?
Meador’s first study found that the survival rate of juvenile chinook that smolted in contaminated estuaries of rivers flowing into Puget Sound was cut in half compared with juveniles coming from a relatively uncontaminated natal estuary. Let me repeat that: Survival rate is cut in half.
been there - done that - dozens of times already Bones - and you were part of those debates on other threads - but now you pretend not to have participated nor remember?? That's really disingenuous, IMHO.
Most of the known impacts of disease transfer into wild systems in Canada has been derived from open-net pen salmon farming, since untreated discharge often gets released into the ocean or nearby freshwater.
Maine salmon farms can be models of sustainable aquaculture
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/07/...rms-can-be-models-of-sustainable-aquaculture/