For the first time, scientists have managed to quantify how escaped salmon have interbred with wild salmon in Norwegian rivers. These results provide a basis for reassessing the impact that escapees from fish farms have on the wild salmon in Norwegian rivers. Escapees are considered as one of the most serious environmental problems in the fish farming industry, and since the Atlantic salmon farming industry was established in the early 1970’s, there has been a long-standing debate about farmed escapees, and their genetic impacts on native populations…
FIS, 21/10/13. Read the full article ‘Interbreeding between farmed and wild salmon quantified‘.