HUGE stocks of the iconic wild Atlantic salmon are being wiped out by sea lice from fish farms around the coast. The wild salmon returning to Irish rivers to spawn are being infested with sea lice, an official report has found. Some of the fish farms may have to close due to the high mortality rate, according to the international two-year investigation involving the State’s Inland Fisheries Ireland authority and top scientists from Ireland and abroad…
Irish Independent, 16/11/12. Read the full article ‘Wild salmon stocks ‘wiped out’ by sea lice‘.
