Editors Note: Regarding Fish Farms, ISA and what the Government is doing (or not doing) about it is alot of information to go through so we will be posting them as links for the reader to follow.

Please find enclosed a press update including:

"Canadian Cover-Up on Infectious Salmon Virus - Leaked report reveals over 100 positive ISA cases in farmed and wild salmon" (Fishyleaks, 30th November): http://www.superheroes4salmon.org/blog/canadian-cover-infectious-salmon-virus-leaked-report-reveals-over-100-positive-isa-cases-farmed

"Deadly Salmon-Virus Tests Kept Secret for Years by Canada, Leaked Documents Say" (Seattle Weekly, 30th November): http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/11/deadly_salmon_virus_tests_kept.php

"Cantwell irked by unpublished salmon virus study" (The Associated Press/Seattle Times, 30th November): http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016895088_apwasalmonvirus.html

"Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret" (The Seattle Times/Boston Herald/Miami Herald/Sacramento Bee/The Olympian/Vancouver Sun, 30th November): http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016890291_salmonvirus30m.html

"Canadian scientists spar over presence of salmon virus off B.C. coast" (The Canadian Free Press/Global News/CBC/Brandon Sun/Winnipeg Free Press, 30th November): http://www.globalnews.ca/canadian+scientists+spar+over+presence+of+salmon+virus+off+bc+coast/6442532112/story.html

"A 'smoking salmon' report: Was deadly fish virus detected years ago?" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 29th November): http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/A-smoking-salmon-report-Was-deadly-fish-virus-2309866.php

"Fish farms fined for pesticide compliance violations" (The Chronicle Herald, 29th November): http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/37708-fish-farms-fined-pesticide-compliance-violations

"700,000 salmon may be on the run" (Aftenposten, 29th November): http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/700000-laks-kan-vre-p-rmmen-6709912.html

"Hundreds of thousands of salmon may be on the run" (NRK, 29th November): http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_trondelag/1.7895984?mid=53

"How to stop sea lice? Make salmon jump" (Futurity, 29th November): http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/how-to-stop-sea-lice-make-salmon-jump/

"China's first salmon farm could affect market for Alaska seafood" (Alaska Dispatch, 29th November): http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/chinas-first-salmon-farm-could-affect-market-alaska-seafood

"AgriMarine on track for growth" (Intrafish, 29th November): http://www.intrafish.com/global/news/article1261943.ece

"A salmon revolution?: Craft-raised salmon makes believers out of California distributor and chefs" (Intrafish, 29th November): http://www.intrafish.com/global/news/article1261944.ece

"Fish farms cut workforce: Marine Harvest cites global meat glut for Campbell River cutbacks" (The Times Colonist, 28th November): http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Fish+farms+workforce/5780562/story.html

Note that on 15th & 16th December there will be an ISA hearing at the Cohen Commission – details online here (more background here

Read the leaked Canadian Government report detailing over 100 positive tests for ISA in farmed Atlantic and wild Pacific salmon – online viaFishyleaks

For background on the global spread of ISA read "ISA: Diary of Disease Disaster" and "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse" – online via: http://www.wildsalmonfirst.org/fish-farmageddon-infectious-salmon-aquacalypse

Read the official reports from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the second case of ISA in coho salmon in the Fraser River - online here

Read the report from the OIE Reference Laboratory on the positive samples in Fraser River chinook and chum – online here

Read the first official report of the European strain of ISA in sockeye salmon in Rivers Inlet on the Central Coast - online here

Read the Norwegian laboratory report on the 6th and 7th positive tests for ISA in Fraser River coho and sockeye – online here

More details via"Chronology of a Cover-Up in Canada: ISA in British Columbia"