How whirling disease in B.C. could threaten a lucrative fishery

How whirling disease in B.C. could threaten a lucrative fishery

Source: CBC News

9/23/2024

Marie Veillard stands at the edge of the vast Kootenay River in Kootenay National Park. She's checking on a group of fry, baby fish she's been looking after for a few weeks now.
They're happy to see her, aggressively swimming for the food she's feeding them in their cage on the river — part of a Parks Canada monitoring program to detect early signs of the disease.

As the rain falls on the gin-clear water, Veillard, a Parks Canada aquatic invasive species expert, remembers the moment she saw a group of fry chaotically swirling around her feet in the nearby Crowsnest River in Alberta.

Kootenay River

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