Read this letter from the executive director of the Alaska Trollers’ Association in the Vancouver Sun, wondering what BC plans to do about the discovery of deadly European Infectious Salmon Anemia virus in BC’s wild salmon.

“When Alaska banned fish farms, the top reason was to avoid disease
spreading to our wild stocks. What was at stake was no mystery: Norway
had already killed entire populations of wild fish due to parasites and
disease introduced by imported salmon. Our state wisely chose to avoid
such risk; yet folks to the south of us put us squarely in the path of
what Alaskans feared the most. As the representative of Alaska
fishermen who rely exclusively on the health of wild fish, I am appalled
by the near-silence of the Canadian agencies responsible to protect
them. I’ve reserved comment in hopes that they would send some signal to
the public, and West Coast fishermen in particular, that Canada is
proactively engaged with a “fish first” attitude.” (October 31, 2011)