Sea lice secrecy slammed

Dan MacLennan
May 28, 2010
Courier Islander

A series of provincial government memos about a 1995 sea lice outbreak at an Okisollo Channel fish farm show how government and salmon farmers have worked together to suppress information, biologist Alexandra Morton charged this week.

"I don't think anything has changed at all," Morton said Wednesday. "There's a lot of secrecy with the help of the provincial government. If they're suppressing the information on sea lice, what about all the viruses and bacteria that occur on these farms as well? This does raise a lot of questions."

But the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) says Morton's allegations are seriously outdated and simply untrue about the industry today.

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