PREDATORS ZOOM IN ON LICE-INFESTED SALMON - Parasite picked up near fish farms may harm wild juveniles in unexpected ways
Rachel Ehrenberg
February 16, 2009
Science News
CHICAGO — Young lice-infested wild salmon not only bear the burden of a parasite load, but they are also more likely to get snapped up by predators than their clean schoolmates, new research shows.
The research, presented February 15 at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, adds to a growing body of evidence that aquaculture, which ideally would take pressure off wild fish stocks, may harm some wild populations in unexpected ways . . .
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Posted February 23rd, 2009
