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Article: Lethal loads of sea lice killing wild fish - claim
- Article from:
- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2007
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A Leading opponent of salmon farms said yesterday that Canadian
research findings offered proof that sea lice from the sites could
kill off wild fish.
The findings of the study were published in this week's edition
of US journal Science. Researchers found that sea lice from farmed
salmon would cause several populations of one species of salmon in
British Columbia to plummet by 99% within eight years. Don
Staniford, European representative for the Pure Salmon Campaign,
said: "This study backs up what scientists in Scotland, Norway and
Ireland have been documenting for the past decade. ...