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Farmed salmon is increasingly putting the future of wild salmon at risk, says a fisheries biologist who visited Williams Lake on the weekend to talk to environmental groups about the growing problem.

Stan Proboszcz is a fisheries biologist with the Watershed Watch Salmon Society who spoke to the Tribune the day before getting into Williams Lake, one of several communities he is visiting around B.C. to raise awareness of fish farms and their impact on wild salmon stocks.

Proboszcz, who is working with the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, was in Williams Lake as part of a new program. He and his colleagues are travelling throughout the Fraser River area to talk to environmental groups and First Nations about potential impacts of farms on Fraser River stocks