date:May 22, 2012
s has been thorough, decisive and organized.
On 14 May, Mainstream Canada detected IHN virus as part of their routine fish health inspections at their Dixon Bay farm. The site has been officially quarantined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the company has begun to depopulate the site.
IHN virus is naturally carried by Pacific salmon, trout and herring, and studies show that they have a natural resistance to the virus and rarely develop illness or disease. Atlantic salmon however