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Nova Scotia seafood firm ordered to kill hundreds of thousands of
salmon due to a viral outbreak says it doesn’t expect the disease
to spread to other sites.
The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency told Cooke Aquaculture to destroy
salmon in their ocean pens outside Shelburne Harbour after an
occurrence of infectious salmon anemia.
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Nell
Halse, a spokeswoman for Cooke Aquaculture, said the company doesn’t
believe the virus will spread beyond the one site where it’s been
detected and the firm intends to proceed with applications for two
new sites in nearby Jordan Bay.
But
environmental group, Ecology Action Centre, said that historically
the spread of the virus is likely. Susanna Fuller, a
spokeswoman for the group said: "Everywhere it’s happened,
whether New Brunswick or Chile, it has spread site-to-site.” Read more...
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Aquaculture is a kind of farming done for the aquatic species like fishes, shellfishes, and aquatic plants. This farming done in freshwater and marine water. this farming in a more organized way, more and more technologies are being developed.Various systems and machineries are used for this oceanic farming, and these instruments as a whole are known as aquaculture systems.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. Unfortunately, Canada seems to be having quite a bit of trouble with viruses this year.
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