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Transcript: Sea Lice-Infested Fish Farms Threaten Wild Salmon
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- December 13, 2007
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
12-13-2007
Sea Lice-Infested Fish Farms Threaten Wild Salmon
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM
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Several runs of wild salmon in western Canada could be driven to extinction in four years, at least that's the conclusion of a new study. It finds that the salmon are being ravaged by parasites linked to nearby fish farms.
NPR's John Nielsen has more on this controversial paper.
JOHN NIELSEN: Every spring, millions of baby salmon known as smolt roll down mountain streams in Western Canada. Many of these tiny fish end up in the Pacific Ocean. But in recent ...