raw salmon research

["troy christenson" <tchrist2@hotmail.com>]

I think I have the "real deal" on the interesting salmon question.  I just 
talked with my father in law Jack and he said that he just hapened to have 
done the research on that particular subject for one of his professors in 
vet school at Washington State to publish.  After he toned down the lingo 
for me a bit, I think I have the picture.  According to him, the parisite is 
carried by snails in rivers and mouths of rivers going into the ocean.  The 
fish pick up the parisite by eating the snails (I think he said that it 
resides in the kidneys of the salmon). Reasearch showed that the limit of 
the snails' range north is the Frasier River in British Columbia, Canada.  
He said that yes, salmon from up in Alaska are in the ocean to the south, 
but the fish are in deep water do not eat the snails.  Thus, there have been 
no cases reported up here that he knows of, or in Canada anywhere north of 
the Frasier River.  Unless the snails' range has changed and expanded, the 
fish are safe.
Hope this answers it!
troy

>From: "troy christenson" <tchrist2@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: Re: Edicational post Salmon
>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:14:13 AKDT
>
>glacier melt down--hope not, i might have to refresh my skills from college
>swimming. I will ask both of them about it and let you know, but my
>suspicion is that they have not seen many cases of it or they would have
>brought it up when we were discussing the RAW diet.  I have to confess that
>jester did get a little chunk of red salmon from our first fishing trip 
>that
>he managed to steal from the cat, but that was weeks ago and nothing.
>worries me still though.  the cat has eaten huge amounts of raw salmon and
>has never gotten sick in the past.  i also know that chum salmon earned the
>nicname "dog" salmon from the natives use of the fish to feed their dogs.
>maybe the cold water is a different story.
>troy
>
>
>>From: Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>
>>Reply-To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>Subject: Re: Edicational post Salmon
>>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:58:27 -0700
>>
>>At 11:06 AM 6/30/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>>scary stuff--safe to say jester will not be near any of our salmon
>>>processing operations.  do you know if it is dangerous to cats as
>>>well?  our cat vince has been getting salmon for all of his life after
>>>each of our fishing trips.  either we have had really good luck or cats 
>>>do
>>>not get the disease.
>>>troy
>>
>>Troy,
>>
>>Perhaps you can be of some help in this discussion.  Would you mind asking
>>all those vets your family with if any of them know the scoop on this?  I
>>have always been told no raw salmon for dogs, but I have lived on the
>>"lower" west coast most of my life.
>>
>>I don't know about cats...  But if it's a PNW thing only in the fish
>>because of cold water as apposed to our warmer waters here like Renee
>>indicates it might be then who knows?  Just pray you guys don't have a
>>glacier melt down huh?
>>
>>Gina
>>
>>
>
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