The federal government quietly paid CAD 4.1 million (USD 3.7 million, EUR 2.7 million) in compensation to two Norway-headquartered aquaculture companies operating in B.C. that had to destroy fish hit by a deadly virus in 2012.
The payments came from a program that has paid out CAD 94 million (USD 85.8 million, EUR 62 million) since 2011 — mostly to East Coast fish farmers — to cover losses from exposure to disease.
The payments of CAD 2.8 million (USD 2.6 million, EUR 1.8 million) to Cermaq Canada and CAD 1.3 million (USD 1.2 million/EUR 855,870) to Grieg Seafoods are outlined in federal documents about the culls after fish farm exposure to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, also known as IHNv
