Subject:  Dying fish! (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 9 Jul 1998 065910 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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......Interesting......This "sounds like" the frog scenario I sent
a couple days ago.....A "possible" EMF impact upon the frog/fish
'defenses' against parasites?????......guru.........

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:33:21 +0000
From: Valdemar Gisli Valdemarsson 
To: Roy Beavers 
Subject: Dying fish!

Roy I have mentinoned this case before.  It is highly interesting. Especially
the experiment.
This story can be found on:  http://www.arctic.is/hondin/silfurlax.html


 Silfurlax hf was working in the field of raising juvenile Atlantic salmon
from 1985 until 1995. In 1986 the company started to farm salmon (from eggs
up to juvenile size) in the fish farm at Núpar III in Ölfushreppur,
Árnessýslu in Iceland. More than 1.5 million eggs were hatched each year in
the farm. The farm is very modern (high-tech) and heavily equipped with
electrical appliances. We had an outbreak of gill disease in each
year-class of juvenile salmon right from the beginning. The mortality
caused by the disease was very high i.e. we lost between 30 and 87% of our
juvenile salmon

The clinical picture of the gill disease involves enlarged cells and
increased number of cells (hypertrophy and hyperplacia) in the gills. The
surface of healthy gills is both large and very thin to allow both oxygen
and ion transport. As the disease develops this large, thin surface
decreases and becomes thicker and in the end it reaches a stage when the
secondary lamellae fuse and hence the surface for oxygen and ion transport
has decreased dramatically. This causes high mortality. The gills of the
surviving juvenile salmon does recover and in most cases they do not suffer
from gill disease again. Many different agents can cause a gill disease,
i.e. parasites and bacteria. Treatment against those pathogens is
available.

However the causative agent of the gill disease at Núpar III was unknown.
Experts in fish diseases, both in Iceland as well as from abroad, had tried
to solve the problem without success. By standardising the use of
formaldehyde the mortality were lowered to about 30 %, probably mainly due
to the effect which the chemical has on the single cell parasite Costa
which often came as a improvement, he formaldehyde treatment was
insufficient as a solution to the problem.

In autumn 1994 we asked a specialist in EMF's problems, Brynjolf Snorrason
at Hondin ltd., if he could assist us to solve the problem. After he had
measured the electric fields, electromagnetic fields and the earth energy
fields in the farm he recommended certain changes in the electrical system
and that the earth connection of the farm should be increased. Those
changes were made in steps during the time period from autumn 1994 until
January 1995. As soon as the first changes had been done the number of
outbreaks of gill disease decreased dramatically. When all the changes
(which had been recommended) had been done the gill disease did only occur
as an exception in some tanks concurrently to measurable electromagnetic
fields that were  accidentally reoccurring in the farm due to some changes
in the electrical system.

People of Höndin with collaborating scientists  started an experiment in
the farm in mars 1996.
Electromagnetic fields were made by installing some electrical equipment
just above some of the tanks. A gill disease outbreak was documented in all
those tanks and also in all the fish tanks
that were close by. The disease did not occur in other tanks in the same
building but those juvenile salmon were slightly older. Further research is
contemplated.

>From our experience we see electric fields, electromagnetic fields, and
earth energy fields as
the primary reason for the gill disease.

                      Júlíus B. Kristinsson    Jón Reynir Andrésson

Valdemar Gisli Valdemarsson
Iceland
Phone: 354-896-6110
email: vgv@isholf.is
Internet:   http://www.isholf.is/vgv





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