Fish Farming and the Coming Salmon Aquacalypse

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The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse
by Don Staniford l Green Around the Gills
Welcome to 'Fish Farmageddon' - the 'Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse' is nigh!

The outbreak of ISA in Newfoundland & Labrador is the latest in a litany of incidents dating back to the first ISA outbreak in Norway in 1984. 

Read more background via the report: "ISA - Diary of Disease Disaster" (October 2011) - online here

And read "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse" (August 2011) - online here
 
 

Fish Farmageddon

Salmon farming is now so disease-ridden that consumers are being urged to boycott farmed salmon.  Join the 12,000 people who have signed apetition to supermarkets calling for an end to diseased farmed salmon. 
 

Change petition Supermarkets #1

 
Sign the petition - online here!

According to Responsible Aquaculture, the scene pictured below is 'Just Another Day at a Nova Scotia Diner': 

Cartoon ISA Raeside copy

Read more details via Alexandra Morton's various blogs on infectious diseases - online here
 

Biosecurity do not enter from Alex's blog June 2012