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Fish Farm Parasites Threaten Wild Salmon
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Fish Farm Parasites Threaten Wild Salmon [podcast]
One Fish, Two Fish, Sea Lice, No Fish
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.
The real dope on the evil, evil jellyfish conniving to take over the planet
It sounds like a bad horror movie, I know. And I’d love to report it that way (as it seems a lot of news outlet are) … “The invading, poisonous jellyfish that slaughtered more than 100,000 organic farm-raised salmon in Northern Ireland last week are on the move in search of their next victims…in Scotland.
In a double sting, the band of roving juvenile mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca) that covered 10 square miles of sea to a depth of 35 feet, hit the open ocean pens of the Northern Salmon Company. The trapped fish never stood a chance. The jelly swarm was so thick their bodies turned the water a hideous red. First they struck the adults (the day before Thanksgiving no less) and several days later moved on to the innocent young fry.”
Well, that’s how you'd spin it sitting around a campfire. And while the facts are accurate, the truth is that the massacre was more like a collision followed by slow suffocation than an attack.
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