Experts find a way to track onslaught of sea lice
Mark Hume
May 20, 2009
The Globe and Mail
DNA research at the University of Guelph has provided insight into a perplexing environmental problem on British Columbia's west coast, where fish farms have been blamed for lice epidemics that have devastated wild salmon stocks.
Researchers have long known that fish farms are incubators for lice and that wild salmon stocks in the vicinity of farms, particularly in the Broughton Archipelago off northeast Vancouver Island, have suffered from devastating lice infestations.
But because lice are almost invisible at the larval stage, it has been impossible for researchers to track the parasites as they drift with ocean currents from host to host.
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Posted May 20th, 2009
