ISA in Canada

Here are the ISA cases reported in Canada by the CFIA for so far in 2018. As you can see it is a pretty full list.

There are two questions:

1. Do we trust the CFIA? I am not sure, as they were the agency that conspired with DFO to find a disease testing system that would produce a negative response for disease in BC. Here is a link to that post, and brilliant work by Alex Morton:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/09/canadian-food-inspection-agency.html. I asked the Attorney General to investigate this case of fraud. Her staff said she could not, so I asked who do I contact to start an investigation? I will let you know what the AG has to say.

Are we supposed to trust the CFIA when its lab was criticized in the Cohen Commission process and that they colluded with DFO?

2. What is to be made of the cases where the CFIA says that a particular strain is not known to cause ISA disease? Well, the issues are that each strain can become infectious and then wipe out farmed fish, taking wild fish with them. And, the CFIA is not identifying where the strain is from. Typically it is from Europe, meaning eggs imported with disease. But they don't go into this.

Note the obvious: there are many cases of ISA that could become full blown epidemics in the list below.

Locations infected with Infectious Salmon Anaemia

Date confirmed	Location	Animal type infected	Scientific Name
September 11	Newfoundland	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
August 30 Table Note *	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
August 28	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
August 24 Table Note *	Newfoundland	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
July 27	Newfoundland	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
July 24	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
June 20 Table Note *	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
June 20 Table Note *	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
May 3	New Brunswick	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
May 2 Table Note *	Newfoundland	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
March 26	Nova Scotia	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
March 13	Nova Scotia	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
March 9 Table Note *	Nova Scotia	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar
February 13	Newfoundland	Atlantic salmon	Salmo salar

Table Notes

Table Note *

This virus strain is not known to cause disease.