VANCOUVER - A B.C.-based salmon farming company is expecting to receive an order very soon, forcing it to kill the more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon at a fish farm north of Vancouver.
Grieg Seafood says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed an outbreak of the IHN virus as the company's Culloden Point fish farm in Jervis Inlet on the Sunshine Coast.
A release from Grieg says while it awaits the order to destroy the fish, it is further isolating the farm and getting ready to depopulate the pens.
The farm was quarantined earlier this month after preliminary positive tests for the virus, which is not believed to be harmful to humans or Pacific salmon, but can be deadly to Atlantic salmon.
In May, all the fish at a Mainstream Canada salmon farm on Vancouver Island were destroyed after the virus was confirmed in pens in the Tofino area.
Precautionary quarantines were also imposed in May on two other farms, including a Grieg operation on the Sunshine Coast, but final tests showed IHN was not present at those facilities. (CKAY)
