Sentences with phrase «infect farmed salmon»

The fall of 2014 did have a healthy return of adult pink salmon, bringing sea lice into near - shore waters where they could infect farmed salmon.

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Salmon, both wild and farm - raised, can be infected with a parasite known as nanophyetus salmincola that causes something called salmon poisoning.

For some farmed salmon, sea lice are more than just uncomfortable parasites that attach to fish and feed on them — unchecked, they can be deadly and can also infect wild salmon swimming nearby.

Local salmon experts claim that at least 80 per cent of farmed salmon are infected with piscine reovirus, a disease that affects farmed fish and nearby wild salmon.