New Threat Looms for Wild Salmon
In 2007 and 2008, a virus wiped out millions of salmon on fish farms in Chile, slamming the country’s aquaculture industry with $2 billion in losses, farm and processing-plant closures, and layoffs of 2,000 workers. Now, that same virus – infectious salmon anemia – has been found in wild salmon from B.C.’s Rivers Inlet.