Posted AT 1:46 AM EDT on 30/03/05
Team links farmed fish to outbreak
Vancouver — A team of research scientists says it has conclusively linked the transmission of lethal sea lice from farmed to wild salmon, a finding that raises questions about the future of B.C.'s $400-million salmon farming industry.
The report, to be published today in the journal of the Royal Society, in the U.K., shows how one salmon farm on the B.C. coast caused an explosion of sea lice that spread to juvenile salmon migrating past.
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