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Source: https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/02/27/BC-Salmon-Farm-Disease-Confirmed/
Study Confirms Deadly Disease in BC Salmon Farms
Research identifies HSMI in farmed fish, links to widespread virus.
By Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca
A study supported by the Department of Fisheries and Ocean?s Strategic Salmon Health Initiative has confirmed that heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI), the third largest killer of farmed fish in Norway, occurs in B.C. and has caused disease at a fish farm in the Discovery Islands between 2011 and 2013 and possibly at three other farms between 2013 and 2014.
The study, with respected federal scientist Kristi Miller among the co-authors, also shed light on the links between piscine reovirus (PRV), common in farmed salmon in B.C., and HSMI.
?We showed that piscine reovirus (PRV) is statistically associated with the development of heart lesions, but also that some fish carry PRV without lesions, especially early in the disease, as has also been reported in Norway,? the study reports...
Study Confirms Deadly Disease in BC Salmon Farms
Research identifies HSMI in farmed fish, links to widespread virus.
By Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca
A study supported by the Department of Fisheries and Ocean?s Strategic Salmon Health Initiative has confirmed that heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI), the third largest killer of farmed fish in Norway, occurs in B.C. and has caused disease at a fish farm in the Discovery Islands between 2011 and 2013 and possibly at three other farms between 2013 and 2014.
The study, with respected federal scientist Kristi Miller among the co-authors, also shed light on the links between piscine reovirus (PRV), common in farmed salmon in B.C., and HSMI.
?We showed that piscine reovirus (PRV) is statistically associated with the development of heart lesions, but also that some fish carry PRV without lesions, especially early in the disease, as has also been reported in Norway,? the study reports...