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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4706)	4/13/2005 12:14:17 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Study: Salmon from farms breed sea lice In the published study, the researchers looked at 5,514 juvenile pink and chum salmon as they swam up two narrow fjords in British Columbia, past a salmon farm. The study found that as the fish migrated past the farm - about one-eighth of a mile long - clouds of lice infected the juvenile wild salmon at unnaturally high rates for nearly 19 miles around the farm. Normally, sea lice are rarely found on wild juvenile salmon. "Conservatively, this means that the parasite footprint of the farm is 150 times larger than the farm itself," said Volpe, a University of Victoria marine ecologist. The study also found that the lice bred as they infected the migrating juvenile salmon, allowing them to re-infect the fish and potentially endanger other marine species. mercurynews.com --------------------------------- I will keep getting my salmon from good ole 'Chief One Feather' in the Columbia River Gorge.