Read this story from the Winnipeg Free Press on a suspected outbreak of the deadly ISAv salmon virus at a Cook Aquaculture open net pen salmon farm in Nova Scotia. (Feb 17, 2012)
HALIFAX – Cooke Aquaculture says it has a suspected outbreak of the infectious salmon anemia virus at one of its fish farms in Nova Scotia.
In a statement today, the seafood company says it destroyed fish contained in two cages at one of its fish farming sites after routine tests and surveillance of its stocks on Feb. 10.
But the company declined to say where the outbreak is suspected.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating, but it too declined to say where the suspected outbreak is located.
Con Kiley, director of the agency’s aquatic animal health program, says the location can’t be made public due to privacy concerns.
Kiley says the virus is not a human health or food risk, but according to the agency’s website, it can kill up to 90 per cent of infected fish, depending on its strain.
He says tests will be conducted at a federal lab in Moncton, N.B., to confirm whether the virus is present.
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