News tagged with salmon farming

Three keys to sockeye decline

(Phys.org) -- Competition with pink salmon in the open ocean could be an important factor in the long-term decline in abundance of sockeye salmon populations in the Fraser River, according to new research from Simon Fraser ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Female sex hormones can weaken the ability of fish to protect themselves against environmental toxins

It is well known that female sex hormones (oestrogens) that end up in rivers and lakes, primarily via spillage from sewers and livestock farming, pose a threat to the environment.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

White fish from the North Sea is equally climate friendly as farmed fish

The environmental impact of plaice and cod caught wild in the North Sea is similar to that of imported farmed fish like salmon, tilapia and pangasius. This was the conclusion arrived at by LEI, part of Wageningen ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Explosives and fish are traced with chemical tags

Researchers at the University of Oviedo (Spain) have come up with a way of tagging gunpowder which allows its illegal use to be detected even after it has been detonated. Based on the addition of isotopes, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lethal Atlantic Virus found in Pacific Salmon

The highly contagious marine influenza virus, Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) has for the first time been officially reported after being found in the Pacific on B.C.’s central coast.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Lice from farmed salmon imperil wild salmon, new study confirms

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published today by an independent team of academic researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) confirmed what many previous ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Judge won't guard fish farm from Grand Coulee flow

(AP) -- A federal judge on Friday refused to order a cut in flows from the Grand Coulee Dam that threaten millions of fish raised in pens downstream in the Columbia River.

Biology / Ecology

created May 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Key discovery made in war on sea lice infestations

University of Maine researchers have published a paper in which they demonstrate that the blue mussel can eat larvae of the sea louse, a parasitic pest that has recently made a comeback on fish farms, decimating populations ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wild salmon decline was not caused by sea lice from farm salmon: study

A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study shows sea lice problem widespread

Salmon farms are transferring parasitic sea lice to wild salmon over a much wider region than first thought. That’s the conclusion of a newly published article called Evidence of farm-induced parasite infestations on ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Key nutrient found to prevent cataracts in salmon

The role of a key nutrient which prevents cataracts in salmon has been revealed by eye specialists at the University of East Anglia.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Environmental scandal in Chile

Until recently, the disastrous scale of the threat posed by salmon farms to the fauna and National Park of the Aysen region of southern Chile was entirely unknown. The unexpected discovery was made by researchers ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new chemical method for distinguishing between farmed and wild salmon

Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0