B.C. salmon farm sea lice levels five times limit during critical wild fish migration, docs reveal

B.C. salmon farm sea lice levels five times limit during critical wild fish migration, docs reveal

Source: thenarwhal

6/13/2022

Credit: David Moskowitz

Sea lice counts at a fish farm in Clayoquot Sound were roughly five times the legal limit during a critical window for out-migrating wild salmon, according to internal government emails shared with The Narwhal.

Cermaq’s Bawden Point and Ross Pass farms exceeded the limit of three motile, or adult, free-moving lice per fish, which is in place during the the period when juvenile salmon travel out into the ocean.

Clayoquot Sound

Salmon, Atlantic

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