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Dear BC Minister of Agriculture 13 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I am writing to file an official complaint regarding what I see as misleading comment by your employee, Dr. Gary Marty, to the public in the Globe and Mail today. In this article: http://www.theglobe...
Bleeding Herring 11 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
On August 10, 2013 these herring were found off northeastern Vancouver Island along the shoreline of Sointula, Malcolm Island. This is a re-occurring event, but this is most severe symptoms that I hav...
Norwegian Salmon Virus in BC met with regulatory silence 20 Jul 2013 | 01:02 am
When I read that the BC Provincial farmed salmon vet found symptoms of a European salmon disease called HSMI this led to: A publication in Virology Journal Commissioning a powerful new short film by...
Norwegian virus devastating to farmed salmon spreads to Canada and Chile: paper published Piscine reovirus previously reported only in the Atlantic Oc... 18 Jul 2013 | 11:38 am
(Sointula, BC, July 16, 2013) The first scientific publication on the occurrence of piscine reovirus outside of Norway was published on July 11 in Virology Journal. The report, Whole-genome analysis o...
The deck keeps stacking higher against wild salmon 26 Jun 2013 | 08:34 pm
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), our global first line of defence against farm animal epidemics, just stacked the odds against stopping ISA virus from spreading in British Columbia. The...
Canadian Wildlife Federation weighs in 19 Jun 2013 | 09:32 pm
If you are a member of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, please thank you them for this posting http://cwf-fcf.org/en/discover-wildlife/resources/online-articles/funding-stories/our-beef-with-aquacult...
The mother country turns on salmon farming 18 Jun 2013 | 01:11 am
Over the past week there has been a steady stream of news stories examining the potential impact of farmed salmon on human health. Norway is the mother of salmon farming, it was started by Norsk Hydro...
In answer to the controversy around Salmon Confidential 24 May 2013 | 03:00 am
Salmon Confidential from Twyla Roscovich on Vimeo. Even before we went public with the bio-political documentary Salmon Confidential that is sweeping across North America, into Ireland and Norway with...
Stop infected farm salmon 22 May 2013 | 12:47 am
On May 7, 2013, Ecojustice filed a lawsuit on my behalf against the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Harvest for the transfer of juvenile Atlantic salmon infected with the piscine reovirus (PRV) from ...
Putting diseased farm salmon in BC waters is not OK - going to court..again 7 May 2013 | 11:00 pm
On May 7, I launched a lawsuit against the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Harvest in the Federal Court of Canada for the illegal transfer of diseased Atlantic salmon into net pens on the Fraser sock...
