ISA Testing Ruse in Canada

We know from the Morton/Kibenge paper that there is Atlantic strain ISA (means it had to come from out of province, typically out of country eggs) in BC. See; https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-015-0459-1.

But did you know that the CFIA has a list of ISA cases in Atlantic Canada in 2018 as long as your arm? See: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/10/isa-in.html. I made the point that the list was going to get longer as it was only September, and it has.

But did you know that through skulduggery in testing that most of the fish ended up in grocery stores, bought by unsuspecting Canadian customers (as the US won't take IsA fish, they have ended up being sold to Canadians. The question is why, are Canadians suckers?)

From Atlantic Canada, Bill Bryden has done the sleuthing to show how the testing is conducted in a way to mask the ISA until fish hit market size and are sold to us, and the ISA washes down drains all over the country to pollute local fish stocks.

Here is what Bryden has do say. It will make you distrust DFO, CFIA and provincial level governments:

"We have an industry wide collapse bigger than the 2012-2014 industry wide meltdown when >70% of the fish died!

Nine sites have been condemned or otherwise have been shown to be amplifying ISAv during the last stocking cycle. 

At an average of 750,000 fish per site that is 6, 750, 000 sick contagious salmon. Even if only 10% at each site are shedding the virus that is 675, 000 sick salmon!

For scale, we have an estimated 22,000 wild salmon in 58 rivers in the DU4 area (south coast). All ARE COSEWIC LISTED AS THREATENED - AND OPEN NET PEN AQUACULTURE IN THE REGION IS LISTED AS A THREAT BY BOTH DFO AND COSEWIC! Why even pretend to care Premier? BTW, ISAv will be carried by herring that school with the next generation of salmon migrating along our coast. ALL our salmon FROM EVERY RIVER!

This time around, there is no CFIA disease compensation (after spending $250M trying to contain the deadly virus), so the CFIA allows them to sell the fish to an unsuspecting public. This virus withstands freezing and thawing 5 times (-80C to +20) with NO effect on the virus infectivity (see peer reviewed literature NOT funded by industry). This gets washed down 1000s of drains daily all over Atlantic Canada. No studies have been done to monitor the effects. In fact, no wild fish health monitor near the cage is done by anyone! This, despite the Auditor General's recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JZev5oYZ4

Gelfand most gaps NO ONE IS MONITORING THE HEALTH OF WILD FISH The Auditor General Julie Gelfand on what DFO is not doing, from her new report April 24th, and speaking at Meeting No. 109 ENVI - Standing Committee on Envi... www.youtube.com

This is ecocidal and provides NO measure of containment nor is it sensible animal rearing....but who cares, the feed is mainly chicken and pig scraps not fit to put in a sausage (Cooke) or wild fish they buy for $0.10 a pound mixed with corn and soy (all human food - LOST) as used by Marine Harvest to make expensive antibiotic and pesticide dumping fake salmon. Most of the antibiotics pass right through the fish intact and trigger all sorts of antimicrobial resistance in the marine environment.

The list SO FAR (not that the disease is not found until the fish reach market size in all but one case!)

The List to Date (I am told MORE site have it but they refuse to diagnose it as the plant can't handle them all):

Note that the St. Alban's plant could only process 2.6M fish if it ran at near maximum capacity for 52 weeks and didn't even stop for Xmas. At least 4.5 M fish have been condemned for ISAv so far during this outbreak in NL alone. Untold wild fish would have been infected, but no monitoring of these numbers is done....or will be done.

BTW, HPR0 aka "non'deletion" strains still trigger an immunological response in the fish - it makes them sick (see Kibenge and Morton paper), but industry only cares about $ so the CFIA ignores this strain. 

The hatchery in Stephenville also had ISAv in 2018 but like the Spyglass cove outbreak the CFIA is not listing this for an unknown reason (now, how did a MARINE VIRUS, get in supposedly clean EGGS SHIPPED IN FROM OUT OF THE PROVINCE WITH A VET CERTIFICATION SLIP????) 

2017 October 31 CFIA listing - Cooke non-pathogenic. HPR 0 (HPR 0 found in January 2017 as well)

2017 November 28 CFIA listing but happened in October - Cooke (diagnosed but now at market size!, note that ISAv HPR 0 was found as far back as January in 2017 but no fish were culled all winter spring and summer, Five of 35 fish tested in one of six open-pen cages had the infection ). Site culled and sold to public.

2018 February 13 Cooke (market size! Again!) Convenient eh?

2018 March 2018 Spyglass Cove Northern Harvest (2-3 pounds), 15 cages, Dartek Fish, transfer permit signed by Eliz Barlow, not listed on CFIA website as of August 2018)

2018 June 2018 NW Cove Site (5-6 pounds, from St.Alban's Hatchery that also got Dartek and Little Hbr fish)

2018 July 2018 Tilt Point Site (5+ pounds, less than 2000m from Spyglass Cove, 15 cages).

2018 Aug 24th non delete (McGraths Cove)

2018 Sept 11th Unknown site in NL

2018 Nov 9th Unknown site (Cinq Island ?)"

Go look at this long list of ISA in Atlantic Canada:  http://inspection.gc.ca/animals/aquatic-animals/diseases/reportable/2018/infectious-salmon-anaemia-2018-/eng/1520361142560/1520361212232?fbclid=IwAR0EtheINXtchZ7JRztAQJn0tr3koe4mwYCqlaYJhjUjZe9jTSAIBlXKoR0.

Now, you can only expect this to get worse, with our government bodies that we are supposed to trust act against the wishes and interests of the public. Shame.