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Sea-lice outbreak on Icelandic salmon farm a ‘welfare disaster’, footage shows 
By Karen McVeigh UK Source: theguardian 11/3/2023
Karen McVeigh
Credit: Veiga Grétarsdóttir
Images of severely diseased, dead and dying salmon at an Icelandic fish farm, obtained by the Guardian, have been described by one veterinary expert as an “animal welfare disaster” on a scale never previously seen.
 

The drone footage, shot last week over an open-pen sea cage in the country’s remote Westfjords region, shows salmon suffering from such a severe infestation of sea lice that huge numbers of the fish are having to be prematurely slaughtered.

 
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