ANGLILNG NOTES: A 1 per cent reduction in salmon returning to their native rivers because of sea lice mortality may be the crucial tipping point between having an open or closed fishery, according to Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) following a Marine Institute publication, which notes that sea lice emanating from aquaculture facilities can cause mortality in wild Atlantic salmon. To put this in context, if 3,000 salmon return to a river and this represents a 5 per cent return rate, a further reduction of one per cent means that 600 fewer adult fish return…
Irish Times, 11/02/13. Read the full article ‘Sea lice mortality in salmon link to if fisheries are open or closed‘.