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Article: Salmon farming is 'a threat' to healthy wild stocks FISHING: THREAT FISHING: THREAT Study links sea lice from fish farms to deaths in migratory population
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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SCOTLAND'S wild share increasingly being killed by lice leaking
from salmon farms, new government research has revealed. But keeping
them a safe distance apart has been deemed too costly and
"logistically difcult" a solution.
Reports from the Scottish government's Fisheries Research
Services (FRS) in Aberdeen and Pitlochry have found strong evidence
that sea lice from caged salmon contaminate wild fish and the
problem seems to be getting worse.
The lice eat fish flesh, causing badly infested salmon and sea
trout to die.
The problem is estimated to cost the Scottish fish-farming
industry up to GBP30 million a year, but the impact on wild fish has
been hotly disputed.
FRS scientists will ...