EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION ! LETTERS TO MEDIA AND CONSTITUENCY OFFICES IMMEDIATELY !Up to 500,000 PRV Piscine Reovirus infected atlantic salmon smolts have been dumped into our coastal waterways during the highly sensitive out migration of wild Pink and Chum smolts leave freshets. Fraser River Sockeye smolts in May will pass through these pathogens ....
Please write a brief to the point letter and storm the media... this insanity has got to stop ! Please read Dr Alexandra Morton's Letter and do your part.
. Send to friends in their FB messages.... can you say deleterious ! Please act now .... your local papers and representatives need to know.
Dear Editor:Marine Harvest’s Dalrymple Hatchery, 40 km north of Campbell River, reared ~500,000 piscine reovirus infected Atlantic salmon smolts destined for net pens on wild salmon migration routes. Piscine reovirus first appeared in Norway in 1999 and spread to over 400 farms, damaging the hearts and muscle of salmon. July 2010, Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity, a World Health Organization disease detective lab, identified the piscine reovirus associated with the disease.
They warn that it spreads like “wildfire.” A wild salmon with this disease may not be able to swim up a river.Up to 90% of some Fraser sockeye runs are dying in the river, before reaching their spawning grounds. Is this virus killing salmon trying to swim up the Fraser River?
The Province of BC reports they found piscine reovirus in 75% of BC farm salmon, although this data did not appear in the Cohen Commission. I am finding it in my research on wild salmon and farm salmon from supermarkets.
Marine Harvest, a large Norwegian salmon feedlot company operating in BC, denies the virus in their fish causes disease. They say DFO is not concerned about this virus either and suggest maybe it has been here all along. International research recommend it be controlled form spreading, but BC is doing nothing.See the film on this:
www.salmonconfidential.caThe precautionary principle is the duty to prevent harm, when it is within our power to do so, even when all the evidence is not in.
This principle appears in several international treaties to which Canada is a signatory.I am writing to inform the people of the Fraser River of these events. The Province of BC is the legal landlord of the fish farm industry. If this matter concerns you, write to the leaders of the political parties and tell him how you feel about this. The Precautionary Principle is needed now to quarantine salmon feedlots away from wild salmon, just like chicken farms were closed from contact with wild birds.
adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.capremier@gov.bc.caleader@greenparty.bc.caoffice@bcconservative.caAlexandra Morton
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