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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.

Solutions. In a four-year study ending in 2020, Norwegian scientists discovered that in the fjords of western Norway, mortality rates among farmed salmon from sea lice infestation reached more ...

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Norway’s fjords and coasts are the farmed fish’s top habitat, with around 500 million salmon swimming in the chilly waters—a ratio of roughly 90 Norwegian salmon to every Norwegian human.

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 ...

Sea lice cost the aquaculture industry worldwide an estimated €6 million-€7 million a year in losses but getting rid of these naturally occurring parasites is not easy.

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

SCHMITZ: In a four-year study ending in 2020, Norwegian scientists discovered that in the fjords of western Norway, mortality rates among farmed salmon from sea lice infestation reached more than 30%.

In a four-year study ending in 2020, Norwegian scientists discovered that in the fjords of western Norway mortality rates among farmed salmon from sea lice infestation reached more than 30%.