Sea lice from salmon farms infect juvenile sockeye
Young sockeye salmon from the Fraser River are being infected with sea lice as they pass fish farms on their migration routes.
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Young sockeye salmon from the Fraser River are being infected with sea lice as they pass fish farms on their migration routes.
Sea lice from fish farms appear to have spread to wild salmon in a much wider area of coastal B.C. than previously believed, shows a newly published paper by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
M.H.H. Price, A. Morton, and J.D. Reynolds. 2010. Evidence of farm-induced parasite infestations on wild juvenile salmon in multiple regions of coastal British Columbia, Canada. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 67: 1925–1932 Download the paper Price etal 2010 Farm-induced lice infestations CJFAS 2010