Sentences with phrase «sea lice on»
Appearance: Gray Whales are, unsurprisingly, medium to dark grey in colour, usually with white patches and scratches, barnacles and orange sea lice on their skin.
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Small fish called wrasse painlessly peck sea lice from the skin of farmed salmon, enabling salmon farmers rely less on powerful pesticides that can harm other marine life.
The sea lice spread to migrating juvenile wild salmon, resulting in the highest numbers of sea lice observed on wild salmon in a decade.
«Furthermore, during the juvenile wild salmon migration, farms are supposed to treat for sea lice within 15 days of when a threshold number of lice are found on adult farmed salmon,» says Peacock.
On an adult fish this may be only a nuisance, but for small juvenile salmon (around the size of a finger), sea lice can be fatal.
About a centimeter in size, the sea lice attach themselves to the outside of a fish and feed on its mucous, blood, and skin.
Not to be confused with an itchy, stinging rash caused by jellyfish larvae, these sea lice are planktonic marine parasites which feed on many types of fish.
To truly whet your appetite, I can?t skip the added ingredients you?ll get with a farmed fillet: dioxins, PCBs, fire retardants (those da - n things are everywhere, aren?t they???), pesticides (especially for sea lice), antibiotics, copper sulfate (to take care of algae on the nets), and?
Rock and Roll to Break Your Writer's Block To — Spencer Kornhaber listens to Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile's Lotta Sea Lice, which charmingly riffs on the question of where inspiration comes from.
Following her break - out success, Barnett teamed up with War on Drugs» Kurt Vile for Lotta Sea Lice, a clever and carefree collaborative album that nearly every authoritative music mag gushed over.
(One 2011 piece, for instance, consisted of a cooking pot on an electric burner filled with such ingredients as recalled powdered milk, «abolished math,» antidepressants, palm tree essence, shaved sea lice, ground Teva rubber dust, Korean thermal clay, and a Swatch watch.)
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.