Farmed Salmon Virus Threatens Wild Pacific Salmon

Craig Weatherby
January 12, 2009
"Vital Choices" Newsletter

Like many seafood retailers, we subscribe to a trade magazine called Intrafish, which covers the farmed and wild seafood industries.

We generally find Intrafish pretty fair when it comes to reporting on controversial issues, but we were still surprised to see them publish an article titled “How Long can B.C. [British Columbia] Avoid ISA?”.

Salmon farms from Norway, Scotland, and Chile toEastern Canada have all suffered outbreaks of a viral disease called Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA).

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