Study indicates that returns of wild adult salmon can be reduced by more than 50 per cent in years following high lice levels on nearby salmon farms during the smolt out-migration. The board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has welcomed a new study in the international journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions which utilised 30 years of data from the Erriff River to evaluate the effect of sea lice from salmon aquaculture on wild Atlantic salmon…
Irish Times, 22/05/17. Read the full article ‘Angling Notes: International journal shows salmon-farms’ link to sea lice and mortality‘.
