Scott Young has come across brown bullhead catfish with dark spots for much of his four-decade fishing career across New Brunswick’s lakes and rivers.
In May, Young took University of Cambridge researcher Zoe Clarke on his boat to collect the spotted fish to confirm her theory that the lesions may be a form of contagious cancer first identified hundreds of kilometres away.
Clarke says she believes results from a DNA sequencing lab that are expected in the next few weeks will show the spotted catfish Young has seen for years have the same transmissible cancer discovered in a lake along the Quebec-Vermont border.
“How the heck did this happen?…
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