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Emily Anthes

One Fish, Two Fish, Sea Lice, No Fish

Emily Anthes on December 13, 2007 5:24 PM
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Fish populations are plummeting and, for once, it’s not a result of overfishing. In an important new paper in Nature, researchers show that parasitic sea lice from fish farms are causing wild salmon populations to collapse. The problem is so severe that there could be a 99 percent decline in certain wild salmon populations over the next four years, the scientists report.

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