Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Federal Scientist Muzzled on Salmon Studies (Vancouver Sun)

Federal fisheries biologist Kristi Miller.
Photograph by: Photo Handout, Postmedia News
Feds silence scientist over salmon study

 

 

VANCOUVER — Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.

The documents show the Privy Council Office, which supports the Prime Minister's Office, stopped Kristi Miller from talking about one of the most significant discoveries to come out of a federal fisheries lab in years.

Science, one of the world's top research journals, published Miller's findings in January. The journal considered the work so significant it notified "over 7,400" journalists worldwide about Miller's "Suffering Salmon" study.


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