Urgent Action: Protect Wild Salmon by immediately addressing the ISAv threat!

In light of recent indications that Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) has been found in wild salmon on the BC coast, I strongly urge you to take immediate, precautionary steps to determine the extent and source of this outbreak. It is not sufficient to rely on re-testing degraded samples with inconclusive results.

The following steps must be taken immediately by DFO (Canada) and British Columbia:

1) Test all Atlantic salmon farms for ISAv.
2) Test all pacific salmon hatcheries; the upcoming brood stock should be sampled at egg-take.
3) Test wild salmon, herring and other fish species for ISAv.
4) Ban all imports of Atlantic salmon eggs in order to preclude future importation of the ISA virus or other exotic diseases.

It is essential that the Government of Canada, through the Fisheries and Oceans Canada, take their fiduciary responsibility to protect the wild salmon seriously and respond quickly to avert this potential disaster.

I look forward to your immediate action on this matter.

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