Fish Farm Lice are Killing Wild Salmon In Scottish, Irish and Norwegian Waters
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Times] by Jerome Starkey - January 15, 2018
Sea lice that thrive on commercial salmon farms are killing tens of thousands of wild fish in Scottish, Irish and Norwegian waters.
Up to 50,000 wild salmon die as a result of the parasites in Norway, a review of more than 100 scientific papers found. Similar conditions in Scotland and Ireland meant that intensive salmon farming had a “general and pervasive negative effect”.
Wild salmon spend most of their lives at sea but return to ...
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