Wednesday 8 May 2013

Morton and Ecojustice take Keith Ashfield, Marine Harvest to Court Over PRV Transferred To the Pacific Ocean, May 8, 2013

I don't normally just give readers a piece to go and look at, but the Alexandra Morton taking DFO, Keith Ashfield, and Marine Harvest to court over transferring PRV - piscine rheovirus - from freshwater smolts to the BC Pacific Ocean, is very serious.

My readers are from all over the world and PRV has been identified as the number 2 fish disease killer of farmed and wild salmon. In some ways it is worse than ISA. You can read these posts:

This is on the lawyer's site, Ecojustice: http://www.huffstrategy.com/MediaManager/release/Ecojustice/8-5-13/Morton-Ecojustice-launch-lawsuit-over-transfer-of-diseased-salmon/2782.html

This is Ecojustices note of PRV facts:  http://www.ecojustice.ca/files/prv-hsmi-summary-of-facts-may-2013/.

This is Alexandra Morton's May 8, 2013 post on the court action she is taking:  http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2013/05/on-may-7-i-launched-a-lawsuit-against-the-minister-of-fisheries-and-marine-harvest-in-the-federal-court-of-canada-for-th.html

Oh, and six months after the $26 Million Cohen Commission on Fraser River sockeye and still no response from DFO..