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Gray Aqua Salmon Farm salmon on Newfoundland’s south coast test positive for infectious salmon anemia

June 6, 2013 Canada

Fish from a Gray Aqua salmon farm on Newfoundland’s south coast have tested positive for infectious salmon anemia. The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the test results on Thursday. The federal agency has issued an erradication order to destroy the( preparing for a cull of up to a half a million ) fish at the company’s Hermitage Bay site. It’s the third such outbreak in Newfoundland in less than a year

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N.L. salmon farm quarantined – Industry expects confirmation of infectious salmon anemia

June 4, 2013 Canada

A Gray Aqua salmon farm on Newfoundland’s south coast is under quarantine as officials test for infection. The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association confirmed on Monday that infectious salmon anemia is suspected at the farm in Hermitage Bay. If confirmed, it would be the third outbreak in Newfoundland in less than a year. continued

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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