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Article: Report spurs questions over sea lice infestation: suggests wild salmon infect farmed fish.(Around The Coasts)
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- National Fisherman
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- January 1, 2004
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The debate over whether sea lice from farmed fish infest wild stocks was thrown off track in September after a Scotland report indicated-the opposite might be true.
Researchers with the West Sutherland Fisheries Trust found, over four years; found that high levels of lice infestation remained constant in wild sea trout, even in the absence of aquaculture farms.
One of the scientists, Dr. Shona Marshall, said there was no direct relation between the two populations of fish.
In British Columbia, the controversy has pitted environmental groups against the aquaculture firms.
Alexandra Morton, with the Raincoast Research society, has been ...