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🧵Statement from @HarpSealsDotOrg on the recent "Seal Summit": The Fish Food and Allied Workers Union, i.e., fishermen/sealers, who attended the Seal Summit are pleased that Fisheries Minister/Vancouver Quadra MP @JoyceMurray announced "an open call for proposals from Indigenous
2)and industry groups to undertake much-needed science work." If the sealers can't get the results they want from actual scientists, they will get the government to give them public money💰💰💰 to kill seals and pretend to conduct scientific experiments on them.
3)Looks like Canada's🇨🇦 #DFO is taking a page out of the Japanese whaling playbook. You can take action to stop this. Imagine what would happen if 100,000 people called and emailed🗣️📧 the Fisheries Minister and Prime Minister and expressed their anger and dismay at this effort
BUSTED: While DFO scientists collaborating with the fish farm industry claim that the virus PRV in their farms does not cause disease, researchers in Norway found that it does.
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thewalrus.ca/the-other-epid… .
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DFO management knew about this and did nothing.
The scientific journal @PLOSONE knew about this and did nothing.
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#bcsalmonfarming
The scientific journal @PLOSONE knew about this and did nothing.
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#bcsalmonfarming
"Last December, Norwegian researchers published a breakthrough study that used purified PRV-1A from BC. In the study, the purified PRV-1A caused HSMI lesions in multiple Atlantic salmon.."
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