A 'smoking salmon' report: Was deadly fish virus detected years ago?

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By JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 07:35 p.m., Tuesday, November 29, 2011


A 2004 draft manuscript, leaked out of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, indicates that the deadly infectious salmon anemia virus was identified eight years ago in coho, pink and sockeye salmon taken from southern British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Bering Sea waters.

Testing done in 2002 and 2003 "lead us to conclude that an asymptomatic form of infectious salmon anemia occurs among some species of wild Pacific salmon in the north Pacific," said the manuscript.

But a senior official at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans recently rejected a request to submit the manuscript for publication.

Its lead author was Molly Kilbenge, a scientist working out of the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, B.C. Three other authors were listed.


Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/A-Smoking-Salmon-report-Was-deadly-fish-virus-2309866.php

[kristopher]

1. They are afraid of destroying the market for salmon, obviously.

If you are interested, dig into the effects of pfiesteria piscicida on the sale of fish in the MidAtlantic.

Bad call on their part, though.