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What ISA Salmon Virus Did to Chile: Damien Gillis' 2009 Photo Essay

Written by Damien Gillis Saturday, 22 October 2011 16:47

In the wake of the discovery of catastrophic Infectious Salmon Anemia in wild Pacific sockeye this week, The Common Sense Canadian revisits Damien Gillis' 2009 photo essay documenting how the same deadly disease wiped out the Chilean salmon farming industry in a few short years. While Chile doesn't have wild salmon like BC, the ISA outbreak wrought significant cultural and socio-economic devastation on the country. Now it threatens to destroy BC's wild salmon stocks. Damien visited Chile's Region 10 in September 2009, at the height of the crisis - here's what he saw.

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View the embedded image gallery online at:
http://www.thecanadian.org/item/1067-salmon-farming-chile-slide-show-isav-virus-damien-gillis#sigProGalleria019f512411

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Damien Gillis

Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon.

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3 comments

  • Thursday, 27 October 2011 10:01 posted by Len

    I can't wait till the gov't starts useing tax payers money to bail out the fishfarmers,after they have allowed this to happen.....I'll move to another country if that happens

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  • Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:56 posted by Damien Gillis

    Tom, whatever salmonids (including trout species and escaped Atlantics) Chile has are not native species so it's an area that doesn't get a lot of study. To my understanding, there have been trout introduced by European settlers years ago, so there are some wild trout populations, but they're relatively minor. I'm not aware of what if any impact ISA from farmed Atlantic salmon has had on those trout populations.

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  • Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:47 posted by tom

    what about chilis trout rishery has isa gotten into the streams and rivers

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