I’ve never seen fish
looking this bad ~ All 100 examined were bloody ~ Officials informed of
hemorrhaging soon after 3/11 ~ Gov’t ignoring problem
By ENENews
August 19th, 2013
Independent
fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about
a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to haemorrhage. [...] “Two days ago I did a beach
seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island] and I
got approximately 100 of these little herring and they were not only bleeding from their fins, but their
bellies, their chins, their eyeballs. [...] “It was 100 per cent … I couldn’t find any that
weren’t bleeding to some degree. And they were schooling with young sockeye [salmon]”
SOURCE:
Alexandra Morton via Vancouver
24 hrs
Sun News, Aug 12, 2013: [Morton] dragged up several hundred of the fish this
past weekend and found the apparent infection had spread ~ instead of their
usual silver colour the fish had eyes, tails, underbellies, gills and faces plastered with the sickly red colour.
“I have never seen fish that looked
this bad,” [...] In June, the affected fish were only found in eastern
Johnstone Strait, but have since spread to Alert Bay and Sointula, she said.
Canada.com, Aug 16, 2013: Morton [...] pulled up a net of about 100 herring near
Sointula and found they were all bleeding. “It was pretty shocking to see,” said Morton [...] Herring school with small sockeye salmon
and are also eaten by Chinook and Coho.
Cover of
Vancouver 24 hrs (SOURCE: Alexandra Morton)
‘RESPONSE’ FROM CANADIAN
GOVERNMENT
Vancouver 24 hrs, Aug 11, 2013: [Morton] says Fisheries and Oceans Canada [FOC] is ignoring the problem. [...] According
to emails from FOC, the federal authority had asked the marine biologist to
send in 20 to 30 herring in September
2011, saying that would be “more than sufficient for the lab to look
for clinical signs of disease and provide sufficient diagnostics.” She did, and
hasn’t heard back since. [...] FOC officials did not respond to a request
for comment by the 24 hours press time.
Canada.com, Aug 16, 2013: Fisheries and Oceans Canada is trying to confirm reports from an independent biologist that
herring around northern Vancouver Island have a disease that is causing
bleeding from their gills, bellies and eyeballs. [...] Arlene Tompkins of DFO’s
[Department of Fisheries and Oceans'] salmon assessment section said staff in
the Port Hardy area have not found
bleeding herring. “We are trying
to retrieve samples, but [Monday] we were not successful because of heavy fog,” she said. “We haven’t had any other reports of fish
kills or die-offs [see salmon
report below].” Tompkins has seen photographs provided by Morton [...]
Marine biologist in Canada: Salmon species needs to be
tested for radiation — Gov’t doesn’t want us to know August 19, 2011
Paper: “Now evidence has emerged that the radiation in
Canada was worse than Canadian officials ever let on” — Radioactive coverup? October 20, 2011
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