In Canada, source of 40 percent of farmed salmon consumed in the US, industrial aquaculture is losing its chemical war with a salmon pest called sea lice.

B.C. farmed fish are now allowed to have three motile (or 0.6 to 1.7 adult female) sea lice on them, when they used to only be allowed 0.1 mature females to qualify for the label.

Salmon farmers in British Columbia have effectively broken a "transmission cycle" in which sea lice were being spread from farmed to wild fish, according to a new scientific paper.

A parasite is killing off farmed salmon on the other side of the world, but seafood industry experts in Alaska don't seem too worried about it. Sea lice are mostly a worry for farmed fish, since ...

Wild salmon migrating downstream toward the sea are being killed en route by sea lice from salmon fish farms, a new study finds. Oct. 2, 2006, 5:12 PM EDT / Source : LiveScience By Ker Than ...

Salmon have a lousy problem, and the race to solve it is spanning the globe.A surge of parasitic sea lice is disrupting salmon farms around the world. The tiny lice attach themselves to salmon and ...

The FNWSA also alleges that the salmon farming industry “under-reports their lice by up to 50% at times when their count is audited by DFO – which is why industry data on sea lice on wild ...

The Scottish salmon farming industry is facing major problems from sea lice, which have led to a cut in output and fast rising costs. BBC Homepage.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s new standard means up to 1,550 per cent more parasites can live on the fish.

Sea lice are naturally occurring parasites that can infect salmon and other species of fish Oceans and Fisheries Canada A study of sea lice on wild and farmed salmon by Canadian scientists found a ...