Lice from farmed salmon imperil wild salmon, new study confirms
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published today by an independent team of academic researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) confirmed what many previous and unbiased studies have also shown, namely, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply and spread to wild salmon and decrease their survival.