Re: Salmon-experience

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

Hi Renee,

I will, I promise. I will definitely report back. I'd asked Gina about this
eons ago; long before we knew there wasn't going to be a Moon-baby for me
since I at times have fed raw salmon up here, and then we both got
sidetracked on the issue.
Debs

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>From: "J. Renee Brooks" <jrbrooks@mercury.cor.epa.gov>
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: Re: Salmon-experience
>Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2000, 11:51 AM
>

> Deb & Boyd McFail wrote:
>
>> This discussion on salmon is as fascinating as I knew it would be!
>>
>> I'm SO glad that it's come about because judging from this experience on
>> your end of the world versus my end of the world tells me several things and
>> one of those things is that I now feel confident that there IS a difference
>> between our salmon and your Pacific Northwest Salmon Gina. .......
>
>> I will check this out further, have no fear, and will report back. I'm on a
>> mission now (g)
>
> Hi Everyone,
>     I would be extremely cautious in assuming there is a difference in the
fish
> in different regions, based on the ecology of salmon (live in a common ocean)
and
> the severity of the effects on dogs.  Deb, since you are on a mission, you
must
> find out more about the parasite.  The first question that must be answer is
> where do the fish get the parasite.  If the answer is the ocean, then all of
the
> fish are exposed; if the answer is the stream bed, then specific rivers,
streams
> and hatcheries are at risk.  Next question would be conditions that would
allow
> the parasite to multiply in the fish, it may be that cold glacial-fed water
keeps
> the parasite level low in Alaskan streams, but I would really want to know
that.
> Third consideration is the genetics of the fish.  It may be that PNW fish are
> more suceptable, or it may be that wild runs down here have crossed more with
> hatchery raised fish and thus are not as hardy to the parasites.
>     Good luck on your research and please let us know.
> Renee
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> J. Renee Brooks
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