What's new // Fraser sockeye and sea lice
Media Release: September 2, 2011
A Raincoast scientist is scheduled to testify at the Cohen Commission September 6 on a study that showed the first link between salmon farms and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon…
North Island Gazette
February 17, 2011
A new study published by researchers from Raincoast, Watershed Watch, UVic and SFU shows a link between salmon farms and sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon…
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Sea lice are spreading from fish farm salmon to young Fraser River sockeye as they migrate through the Strait of Georgia, a new study has found…
Courier-Islander
A new study published Monday by researchers from Raincoast and Watershed Watch provides the first link between salmon farms and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon…
AlterNet
A new study is the first to show a potential role of salmon farms in sea lice transmission to juvenile sockeye salmon during their critical early migration to the sea…
CBC News
Young sockeye salmon from B.C.’s Fraser watershed are infected with higher levels of sea lice after swimming past salmon farms, a new study has found…
(ENS) – The first link between salmon farms and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye has been demonstrated by new research published today…
Young sockeye salmon from the Fraser River are being infected with sea lice as they pass fish farms on their migration routes.
Fraser River sockeye returned in record low numbers last fall, one percent of what they were a century ago
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