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Title: lethal virus detected in wild pacific salmon
Post by: longknife on October 18, 2011, 02:39:05 PM: Not a good thing!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016533103_salmon18.html (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016533103_salmon18.html)
Title: Re: lethal virus detected in wild pacific salmon
Post by: oldcamper on October 18, 2011, 06:14:48 PM: No deffinatly not. And how long before this becomes the next bird flu? I assume any virus could some how change its makeup over time.
Title: Re: lethal virus detected in wild pacific salmon
Post by: redpinAdmiral on October 20, 2011, 08:03:17 AM: Haven't been found in Washington Salmon only in farmed in other parts of the world but . . . may effect our salmon. Sounds like Atlantic Salmon farmers want us to shell out money to fix their epidemic so they can still market Altantic Salmon?? Stop the pens!!!
Title: Re: lethal virus detected in wild pacific salmon
Post by: lokidog on October 20, 2011, 10:50:32 AM: Quote from: redpinAdmiral on October 20, 2011, 08:03:17 AM
Haven't been found in Washington Salmon only in farmed in other parts of the world but . . . may effect our salmon. Sounds like Atlantic Salmon farmers want us to shell out money to fix their epidemic so they can still market Altantic Salmon?? Stop the pens!!!

AGREE! STOP THE PENS!!
Title: Re: lethal virus detected in wild pacific salmon
Post by: JimmyHoffa on October 21, 2011, 12:53:12 PM: There is a plan in the works right now to possibly put a bunch of pens in the straits. They would be located between the Lyre and Twin Rivers (just west of Joyce).