Salmon farming is a threat to healthy wild stocks

Rob Edwards
Sunday Herald
March 29, 2008

 SCOTLAND'S WILD fish are increasingly being killed by lice leaking from salmon farms, new government research has revealed. But keeping them a safe distance apart has been deemed too costly and "logistically difficult" a solution.

Reports from the Scottish government's Fisheries Research Services (FRS) in Aberdeen and Pitlochry have found strong evidence that sea lice from caged salmon contaminate wild fish - and the problem seems to be getting worse.

Read the full article in the Sunday Herald.