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**Shiloh** · May 19, 2012, 06:26 AM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantine on B.C. salmon farm

Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/can...152136485.html

B.C. salmon farms testing for virus
By: Staff Writer
Posted: 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

VANCOUVER -- Atlantic salmon farms around Vancouver Island have begun testing and formed a special outbreak management team after a virus outbreak at one farm led to a site quarantine and the cull of more than half a million fish.

The farm most seriously affected by the virus is run by Mainstream Canada, which confirmed tests conducted earlier this week showed the presence of infectious haematopoietic necrosis at its site on the Island's west coast, located at Dixon Bay, north of Tofino, B.C.

A second farm announced Friday the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has identified a "low positive result" for the same virus in coho salmon samples on a Sunshine Coast farm...

**Shiloh** · May 25, 2012, 09:24 AM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantine on B.C. salmon farm

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Se...571/story.html

Second salmon farm under quarantine for virus
Additional samples being taken to confirm positive test for IHN By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist May 25, 2012 3:03 AM

A second B.C. salmon farm is under an official Canadian Food Inspection Agency quarantine order after a positive test for infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus.

Grieg Seafood put its Ahlstrom Point farm, near Sechelt, into voluntary quarantine last week after routine tests by Fisheries and Oceans found a low positive result for IHN in the company's coho salmon...

**Shiloh** · May 26, 2012, 05:49 PM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thi...763/story.html

Third B.C. fish farm quarantined after deadly virus detected
By Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver Sun May 26, 2012 1:02 PM

VANCOUVER - A third B.C. fish farm is under quarantine after a virus deadly to farmed salmon was detected on a site owned by Mainstream Canada.

The company says fish have tested positive for infectious hematopoietic necrosis, or IHN, at its Bawden Point farm near Herbert Inlet, north of Tofino.

Mainstream said it plans to harvest the salmon "as soon as possible" because they are mature and ready for market.

The virus is not harmful to humans...

**Shiloh** · May 30, 2012, 09:15 PM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...shColumbiaHome

Another B.C. fish farm quarantined over salmon virus
By: The Canadian Press
Date: Wednesday May. 30, 2012 3:14 PM PT

Tests have confirmed an infectious virus at a salmon farm on Vancouver Island.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the IHN virus was detected in fish at farm operated by Mainstream Canada at Dixon Bay near Tofino.

The agency says all the fish have been destroyed and the farm will remain under quarantine until all pens, cages and equipment have been cleaned and disinfected...

**Shiloh** · June 1, 2012, 07:31 AM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.coastreporter.net/article...or-salmon-farm

Disease lab results negative for salmon farm
June 1, 2012
Ben Ingram/Staff Writer

The lab results came back negative for Grieg Seafood last week, after the presence of infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) was discovered at their Ahlstrom Point salmon farm during routine testing.

?The follow-up test involved 30 animals and all were negative,? said Stewart Hawthorn of Grieg Seafood. ?The quarantine status of the farm has not yet changed ? Grieg wants to get a series of negative tests before we look to change our enhanced biosecurity status...?

**Shiloh** · June 1, 2012, 09:10 PM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Qu...688/story.html

Quarantine lifted for salmon farm near Sechelt
timescolonist.com June 1, 2012 7:02 PM

The quarantine on a salmon farm near Sechelt has been lifted and the majority of B.C. fish farms tested so far have proved negative for the Infectious Haematopoietic Necrosis virus, says B.C. Salmon Farmers Association.

Earlier this month, Mainstream Canada killed more than 560,000 fish from its Dixon Bay farm in Clayoquot Sound after tests came up positive for IHN. Tests are continuing on fish from Mainstream?s Bawden Point farm, north of Tofino where there was a positive test result last week.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency had also quarantined the Grieg Seafoods B.C. site near Sechelt, which grows coho salmon, after one weak positive test was found, but tests now show that farm is clear...

**Shiloh** · June 4, 2012, 11:05 AM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/wor...781&ndb=1&df=0

49 farms in BC test negative for salmon virus
Tuesday, June 05, 2012, 00:50 (GMT + 9)

The British Columbia (BC) Salmon Farmer's Association (BCSFA) has confirmed that 49 of the active salmon farms in the province have come back testing negative for the infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus...

**Shiloh** · June 11, 2012, 06:16 AM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/can...158406415.html

Wild migrating salmon likely infected their farmed cousins in B.C., say experts
By: Keven Drews, The Canadian Press
Posted: 5:54 AM |

VANCOUVER - Observers of the decades-long argument over fish farming in B.C. can now add one more shade of grey to the debate.

Industry critics have long feared Atlantic salmon raised in open-net cages in the ocean can pass on diseases to wild salmon and as a result, jeopardize those wild stocks.

But an outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis, known as IHN, on an Atlantic salmon farm off Vancouver Island's west coast in May appears to have been caused by passing wild stocks, a reversal of the traditional arguments against the industry.

Instead of harming wild stocks, the May outbreak actually led to the quarantine of Mainstream Canada's Dixon Bay farm, north of Tofino, the cull of more than 560,000 young Atlantic salmon, and fears of a larger outbreak industry-wide.

The all-clear bell was rung by the BC Salmon Farmers Association on Friday, when it announced that independent tests for the virus on all active Atlantic salmon farms in the province have now come back negative.

But farms will continue to watch and test their fish, the association announced...

**Shiloh** · August 4, 2012, 04:23 PM

Re: Canada: IHN Virus sparks quarantines on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com/health/...005/story.html

Second B.C. salmon farm quarantined after tests
Farmers await further results to confirm virus
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist August 4, 2012

A second B.C. salmon farm is under quarantine because fish tested positive for a potentially deadly virus, but salmon farmers say the disease has not yet been confirmed and no culling decisions will be made until the Canadian Food Inspection Agency receives results from further tests.

The CFIA has taken charge of the Grieg Seafood site at Culloden Point on Jervis Inlet and a Mainstream Canada farm at Millar Channel in Clayoquot Sound that tested positive for IHN, or infectious haematopoietic necrosis, this week.

Stewart Hawthorn, Grieg's managing director, said preliminary positive results were found during routine monitoring...

**Shiloh** · August 9, 2012, 10:46 AM

Re: Canada: Suspected/confirmed IHN Virus on B.C. salmon farms

Source: http://www.theprovince.com/health/co...123/story.html

B.C. company to kill 300,000 Atlantic salmon after virus outbreak
The Canadian Press August 9, 2012 8:06 AM

A B.C.-based salmon farming company is expecting to receive an order very soon, forcing it to kill the more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon at a fish farm north of Vancouver.

Grieg Seafood says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed an outbreak of the IHN virus as the company's Culloden Point fish farm in Jervis Inlet on the Sunshine Coast...