Sea lice on young pink and chum salmon in the Discovery Islands region dropped 96 per cent after salmon farms were removed in 2020, a new paper co-authored by independent researcher Alexandra Morton ...

In the Pacific Northwest, sea lice that spread from cultivated salmon to their wild counterparts have become major parasites affecting the wild population. The lice, which are visible to the naked eye ...

The problem is sea lice, natural parasites that normally attach to adult salmon with little ill effect and have little contact with vulnerable juvenile salmon. That changes when the fish farms move in ...

SIDNEY, British Columbia, Canada, February 8, 2011 (ENS) – The first link between salmon farms on the British Columbia coast and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon has ...

Increased sea lice infestations, scientists say are caused by salmon farms, threaten the already-vulnerable wild Pacific salmon populations in western Canada, worrying conservationists and First ...

Atlantic salmon on a fish farm in British Columbia, Canada; and Gary Marty, the new study's lead author. He is a veterinary pathologist and research associate at the UC Davis School of Veterinary ...

WASHINGTON — Salmon farms help stock supermarkets but also breed parasitic sea lice that infect young wild salmon and could endanger other important ocean species such as herring, scientists said ...

A new report has found that Scottish salmon farms are failing to get a grip on sea lice infestations and not managing to meet their own guidelines on lice numbers. It estimates that one single large ...

Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, natural parasites that normally attach to ...