Federal court rules farmed salmon must be tested for deadly virus in B.C.

By The Canadian Press
The Federal Court has struck down a Fisheries and Oceans Canada policy regarding a lethal virus that has the potential to infect wild chinook salmon in British Columbia waters. Piscine orthoreovirus, or PRV, is highly contagious and often found in fish farms off the B.C. coast, many of which are positioned along wild salmon migration routes.…

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• Whistler News

February 6, 2019

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