Sea lice may be driving wild salmon to extinction


	Sea lice may be driving wild salmon to extinction

JICWyllie

12-13-2007 4:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13b3d431-c43f-4e8c-a218-721fd615e57f/C8E519E5-EAB3-4B4F-8CDD-B3806EFC21C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13046-sea-lice-may-be-driving-wild-salmon-to-extinction.html" href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13046-sea-lice-may-be-driving-wild-salmon-to-extinction.html" style="font-size: 11px;">environment.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13046-sea-lice-may-be-driving-wild-salmon-to-extinction.html"><P>Fish parasites from salmon farms on the west coast of Canada are driving the local wild salmon to extinction. The wild fish could be gone in four years, warn scientists in a new study, unless the farms are moved, or made watertight.</p> <P>Critics of aquaculture have long <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15921414.300-infested-waters.html">charged that salmon farms harm wild fish</A>, but this has never before been demonstrated so dramatically. It will boost criticism of aquaculture, already under pressure from,<A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19626323.700-insight-overfishing-is-creating-a-jellyfish-plague.html">climate change and increasing demands for fish</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13046-sea-lice-may-be-driving-wild-salmon-to-extinction.html">salmon farms in coastal waters swarm with sea lice,<A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225724.600-farmed-salmon-put-wild-cousins-at-risk.html">exposing juvenile fish</A>. The <A target="ns" href="http://www.salmonfarmers.org/index.html"> British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association</A> (BCSFA) on Canada’s west coast insists there is no problem, as “sea lice occur naturally in all oceans”.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C8E519E5-EAB3-4B4F-8CDD-B3806EFC21C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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