Sentences with phrase «escaped farmed salmon»

A PhD project carried out at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Research has investigated the use of sterile salmon in aquaculture as a means to prevent escaped farmed salmon interbreeding with wild salmon.

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But fish farms are also notoriously difficult to regulate and prone to accidental release: Asian carp in the Midwest (introduced to clean algae from the farms), Louisiana crayfish in China and Atlantic salmon in the southern Pacific have all done substantial environmental damage after escaping from fish farms.

This is important information because millions of farmed salmon escape into the wild — posing threats to wild gene pools.

Escape from commercial salmon farms in the northern Pacific have introduced the Atlantic salmon into the range of the Pacific species.

Hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon are reported to escape in Norway each year and these fish can breed with wild fish creating hybrids that are less adapted for life in the wild.

We've reported on farmed Atlantic salmon escaping into wild Pacific salmon habitat, and how farmed fish threaten marine life and human health.