600,000 Salmon Killed After Virus Outbreak at 2 Nova Scotia Fish Farms
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] by Richard Woodbury - March 2, 2018
About 600,000 salmon smolts had to be killed following an outbreak in February of infectious salmon anemia at two land-based fish facilities in Nova Scotia.
Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell said Thursday the two facilities are located close to each other, but wouldn't name them. "The virus is just in one location and they move fish from one facility to the other," he said.
The loss amounted to almost all of one company's fish stock ...
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