The Chinese are covering it too.
http://www.iask.ca/news/vancouver/2012/0704/143675.html
Google translate of the Chinese text (a little wonky but you get the idea):
The hypermarket salmon row Alarmed by the parasite
Canadian homes iask.ca 2012-07-04 8:44 source: World News Network by: Click: 4595 Times
Consumer repurchase frozen salmon fillets, the meat is different. （CTV） (CTV)
Consumers recently in the large discount stores to buy salmon, we found that the meat is different, confirmed by the salmon farming industry, salmon was a common parasite adhesion, although not harmful to humans, but it does affect the meat. Consumers Reynolds purchased at Costco a few days ago a package of salmon steak, found on some dent in the fish, plus a closer look and found that above some small hole, so that goods took photos as evidence, sent to Costco retreat models.
British Columbia's largest fish farming industry in Canada sea by the Company (Marine Harvest Canada), however, confirmed to CTV television, from the aforementioned point of view of these symptoms, the salmon has been called "fish library worm" (Kudoa thyrsites) of the parasite attached, and these fish through the quality control procedures on the market, very surprised.
Pest vitality and
Robert, a spokesman for the Canadian sea by the Company, that the parasite is not uncommon for farms to be regarded as the second highest rate of disease occurs.
He said, "Fish Gallery insects harmful to humans, but let the fish was attached to the soft flesh, and even plastic, deterioration of the jelly state.
Parasite survival and strong, even if it is a parasitic fish had died a long time, can still survive still, and thus become one of the British Columbia salmon farming industry is the most troublesome pest.
Canada sea by the Company alone, last year dropped 12 million yuan, used to remove the infected salmon, as well as to provide a refund to the retailer.
In addition, Costco so far did not respond to the queries of the CTV, but a store manager posing as consumers of CTV reporter said that the purchase of the company, about 200 fish row will find a have a problem, and will promptly Dangxia not let these rafts shelves.
The aquaculture industry is in full swing to continue to expand a way to prevent this pest, but experts are more concerned about how to prevent these parasites also threaten wild salmon.
V Whirlpool, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Victoria, industry and academia do not know the scale of the victims of such parasites, as well as the possible impact on the overall ecology, "such parasites harm like a time bomb attached to the fish .
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