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I have a feeling that will become a popular defense in the future. I don't know if medical science will support it but it will be interesting.
More importantly, which river are they dumping these salmon into? The article says it was the last of the haul. Hopefully they mistook the salmon for the trout hatchery.
ODFW determined they were releasing too many hatchery spring salmon into the McKenzie river so they trucked excess smolts over to the Coast Fork Willamette that year. The idea was the fish would return to the acclimation site on the Coast Fork and not interbreed with the native fish in the McKenzie; this would also create a new salmon fishery on the Coast Fork. We'll see how that turns out soon enough.
We had a thread or two about this that I can't find now.
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2012/February/022412.asp
Does this look familiar? I can't imagine these fish making it above the hatchery to spawn... It's literally a bridge that "constructs" the dam; I've not seen evidence of a fish ladder..
EDITL: Last year, the fish literally rushed to the hatchery to escape both the heat and low water conditions, where every salmon were "treated". I may have some fantastic video(s) of them to dig up.. It was a remarkable thing to see.
Antifungal medicine can cure ABP, but that is not going to be a big seller. If you had ABP, why would you want to cure it?