Wild salmon being ravaged by fish farm lice: study

The world’s wild salmon population is being ravaged by sea lice infestation from fish farms, new Canadian research has confirmed.
Up to 95 per cent of young wild salmon that migrate out to sea die after swimming through plumes of lice from infected fish farms, according to results of the research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America.

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