Canada silences a salmon expert [View All]

The Canadian federal government in Ottawa has silenced a leading West Coast fisheries scientist who has argued that a virus is infecting and killing sockeye salmon when they enter the Fraser River, not far north of the U.S.-Canadian border.

The undammed “mighty Fraser” supports four of the world’s greatest sockeye salmon runs, push other salmon, fish that are caught by commercial, recreational and native fishers in waters of both the U.S. and Canada.


Salmon bound for the Fraser River use two routes coming from the Pacific. They migrate down Johnstone Strait in Canadian waters, as well as through the Strait of Juan de Fuca which forms the U.S.-Canada boundary.

The Privy Council Office, senior bureaucratic component of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, has told scientist Kristi Miller not to talk to media about Miller’s “Suffering Salmon” study, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.


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