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Farmed salmon escape in Canada
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Silver Donald Cameron - The ChronicleHreald.ca on 31/01/2011 11:48:00
 
Elsewhere — in Norway, Scotland, Chile, British Columbia — salmon farming is
a highly controversial industry. Here it seems to skate along smoothly under the
radar.
Salmon farming is controversial for two main reasons. First, it is a highly
inefficient way to produce food. Producing feed for farmed salmon intensifies
the pressure on other fisheries around the world. In effect, the process turns
four kilograms of wild fish into one kilogram of industrial fish. How clever is
that?
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"The clustered fish are succulent targets for epidemics of parasites such as sea
lice, which can move easily through the mesh cages, and viruses such as
infectious salmon anemia, which first appeared in Norway in the 1980s, and now
inhabits salmon farms in Scotland, Chile and New Brunswick."