Alexandra Morton, a maritime biologist in British Columbia states that infectious salmon anemia, a flu-like virus deadly to fish can wipe out the aquaculture industry in the Maritimes. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has concluded it cannot eradicate the virus in Atlantic waters and can only try to prevent the virus that kills fish but is harmless to humans. The last outbreaks in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador point to a new deadlier strain of the virus and indicate that it did not originate from wild fish. Biologists are concerned with it spreading to the wild population. A movement has begun to end open pen salmon farming in favor of land-based systems.