SEA LICE – BC
December 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIE, in MontrealINFESTATIONS of sea lice on Canadian fish farms is probably to blame for the massive decline of wild pink salmon in British Columbia's (BC) south coast, according to a report from the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (PFRCC).The report called for a temporary closure of aquaculture in the Broughton Archipelago, claiming it has caused numbers of local juvenile wild Pink Salmon to drop from 3.6 million to 147,000 in the past two years.Pink Salmon migrate to the Pacific Ocean from streams and fjords in the region that are ...
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