UC Davis study: Wild salmon decline was not caused by sea lice from farm salmon

Science Centric: A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada. The Broughton crash has become a rallying event for people concerned about the potential environmental effects of open-net salmon farming, which has become a $10 billion industry worldwide, producing nearly 1.5 million tons of fish annually. The new study, to be published online this week in Proceedings of the National......

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