Chile to Examine Possible Link Between Salmon Industry, Red Tide
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Reuters] By Fabian Cambero and Gram Slattery- May 16, 2016
A team of scientists will determine if salmon producers dumping tons of dead fish into the Pacific contributed to a massive "red tide" that is wreaking havoc among fishermen in southern Chile, the government said on Friday.
The red tide - an algal bloom that turns the sea water red and makes seafood toxic - is a common, naturally recurring phenomenon in southern Chile, though the extent of the current outbreak is unprecedented.
After starting in the Los Lagos region, the ...
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