Jeff Hutchings: “Are we interested in preventing disease, or the semantics of whether mortality events meet the right definitions?”
/www.hakaimagazine.com/news/how-aquaculture-is-spreading-a-salmon-virus/ @hakaimagazine@gidmord
Nearly five months, lots of new friends, 200+ sites and 600+ samples later, the field season for the first chapter of my PhD is finished!
I am so grateful for the people that have welcomed me into their territories and homes.
@SalmonCoast@FieldCoast@Uuathluk
New study in @cjfas shows that Young Fraser River sockeye salmon migrating past fish farms in the Discovery Islands were more than 12x more likely to carry a potentially harmful bacteria, Tenacibaculum maritimum. @bat3man@PSF#fishsci
https://t.co/xffSzFk5Jl via @NatObserver
New paper analyzes patterns of molecular detection in sockeye salmon for the bacterium Tenacibaculum maritimum, known to cause disease in fish globally & to cause mouthrot disease in farmed Atlantic salmon in British Columbia. https://t.co/hmmf3s4jq2
Fieldwork takes Murphy's law to the extreme. Be resilient. As much as possible, plan for delays in your schedule. Pack really good snacks. #FieldWork#PhDChat#salmon
likewise @JZThinAir, and @WatershedWatch_
All singing from the same songbook about what needs to be fixed in terms of science (and other) advice @DFO_Pacific
Ten years ago, a DFO scientist discovered a foreign virus in fish farms that was killing endangered Chinook. DFO suppressed this research. For years we fought for release under the Access to Information Act. Finally, we won. https://t.co/exc2Qp6dKv
New research shows that mountain goats in Kitasoo Xai’xais territory and beyond in British Columbia are of conservation concern.
@jessen_tyler@CN_Service Kim Poole @bat3man@cole_burton Paul Paquet
https://t.co/I6pajlzzQi
Will leave this right here ..
as I have high confidence that many #FirstNations people are thinking this very thing .. coast to coast to coast
#mikmaq#Wetsuweten
Today, legal counsel for a multi-billion dollar, international, company called my First Nation client, “unreasonable”.
Why?
The First Nation did exactly what the three-year old agreement with the company said it could do.
Hot of the press @PSF magazine just dropped with this article on harmful impacts of open net pen salmon farms:
“PRV originated in the Atlantic Ocean and has been spread around the world through salmon aquaculture”
"Trans Mountain said its pipeline expansion now being constructed is designed to withstand a 10% increase in flood activity to account for climate change."
A 10% increase in flood activity? Really?
You've got entirely exposed TM pipe on the #coquihalla right now. #ClimateCrisis