DFO Will Not Appeal Court Decision on PRV Testing, Still Reviewing Policy
In early February, the Canadian Federal Court overturned a Fisheries and Oceans Canada policy that allowed aquaculture companies to transfer juvenile Atlantic salmon into open-net pens without testing them for a virus that could spread to B.C.’s wild chinook populations.
According to press reports and a Feb. 5 story in the Campbell River Mirror, Justice Cecily Strickland ruled that transferring the fish without screening them for piscine orthoreovirus, or PRV, “perpetuates a state of wilful blindness on the part of the...
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