The Atlantic Salmon Federation claims that open-pen salmon farmers in
received more than $100 million in government compensation between 1996
and 2000 for having to destroy diseased fish.
The federation has launched a media campaign which alleges that
federal government and the provinces of
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador gave taxpayer
money to farmers after more than 10 million fish infected
with infectious salmon anemia were destroyed.
Biologist and anti-salmon farm campaigner, Alexandra Morton is
taking the Canadian federal government to court for allegedly allowing
farms to move infected fish to ocean pens.
Morton claims the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
acted 'unlawfully' by issuing a licence to Marine Harvest Canada Inc. to
allow the farm to transfer fish carrying piscine reovirus (PRV).
The DFO has not commented as the matter is being dealt with in court.
Asian carp, which is native to China, was introduced to North America in the 1970s to control algae in Arkansas aquaculture ponds. Since then, the fish have spread throughout the Mississippi River watershed and advanced into the Great Lakes, dominating the natural habitat and forcing native species out.
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