Fisheries and Oceans Canada never released the information

A decade earlier, a Canadian researcher had identified a similar virus in a 100 salmon, from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Fisheries and Oceans Canada never released this information, to the public or other scientist in the United States about the tests. Not even after evidence of the ISA virus discovered in October was treated as an international emergency. US scientists on Tuesday expressed dismay that the Canadians never had mentioned the researcher's work. The scientists also said they feared there had been little effort to conduct new tests to see whether she'd been right. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.