cover image: Published science concerning sea lice from salmon farms affecting Wild Salmon

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Published science concerning sea lice from salmon farms affecting Wild Salmon

6 May 2024

In the case of DFO’s risk assessments for sockeye salmon, the so-called peer-reviews included persons employed by and/or frequently contracted by the salmon farming industry and did not allow for dissenting opinions to prevent the finalization of the documents. [...] A Long, KA Garver & SRM Jones, “Differential effects of adult salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis on physiological responses of sockeye salmon and Atlantic salmon,” Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 31:1 (2019), (“Long et al. [...] Beamish, Simon Jones, et al, “Exceptional marine survival of pink salmon that entered the marine environment in 2003 suggests that farmed Atlantic salmon and Pacific salmon can coexist successfully in a marine ecosystem on the Pacific coast of Canada” ICES Journal of Marine Science, 63: 1326-1337 (2006) doi:10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.04.011 23. [...] “Fish Farms and Sea Lice Infestations of Wild Juvenile Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago—A Rebuttal to Brooks” (2005). [...] “Temporal patterns of sea louse infestation on wild pacific salmon in relation to the fallowing of Atlantic salmon farms”.

Authors

Karen Wristen

Pages
4
Published in
Canada