«The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms,» says John Reynolds,
a salmon conservation scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Newly published research co-authored by
scientists at Simon Fraser University and the Raincoast
Conservation Foundation shows juvenile coho
salmon benefit from dining on the distant remains of their spawning pink and chum cousins.