You can attack me as much as you want, you just spout the same old nonsense that FF industry apologists (and other industry ) come up with. Trust us, we have the environment's (patient's, consumer's) interest at heart. My references to most (not all most) fish farm specific disease pathogen research is taking place at the industry or industry sponsored level are accurate. Maybe look at Hinch's research before mouthing off and posting his link. His papers in press:
Short-term physiological response profiles of tagged migrating adult sockeye salmon: a comparison of gastric and external tagging methods. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
Transcriptome patterns and blood physiology associated with homing success of sockeye salmon during their final stage of marine migration. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Population-specific mortality in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) released from a purse seine fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Embracing disruptive new science? Biotelemetry meets co-management in Canada’s Fraser River. Fisheries.
Not to criticize Dr Hinch and his associates and grad students work as I'm sure this work is all valid , but there is nothing even remotely related to fish farms in his in press papers, and if you go through the entire link meant to educate me there only a few papers with anything remotely to do with the topic of Fish farm pathogens or influence of them on pacific salmon. If anything you help prove my point with this link, which is research related to the farms is dominated by corporate entities. I never said there wasn't research being done on fisheries in general. But kind of a basic necessity to do research on fish farms is you need access to the farm to do it, and for that you need permission from the farm, and to get that access and permission from the corporate head office in Norway. The farms aren't going to give access for any research they don't approve of or the government doesn't mandate. As AA has pointed many time out the government has an inherent conflict of both promoting the industry and regulating it. The comparisons to other industries in the past that caused harm due to control of the research is completely valid.
We will never agree, and you can continue your personal attacks, it certainly doesn't change my mind, and only hardens my resolve that the burden of proof of safety should be on the farms which is not currently the case. I applaud this may change in WA in the future, where if the legislation is passed, FF will have to prove lack of harm in order to have leases renewed.