Now that most of the fish farms in the Discovery Islands have closed down, sea lice numbers may have plummeted as much as 95%.
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Salmon farms infecting wild Chinook salmon, study suggests
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The transmission of a virus tied to kidney and liver damage in endangered Chinook salmon is being fuelled by the exchange of the disease between open-net pen fish farms and wild stocks in B.C., a new study indicates.
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Three threats to Quadra Island wild salmon
On May 12th, Eileen Sowerby from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society (QISES) gave the Strathcona Regional District Board a presentation about the three threats to Quadra Island’s wild salmon: salmon farms, logging and climate change
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DFO: a potentially transformative decade
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada is in the enviable position of having the longest coastline in the world. But our trio of oceans is being battered by a storm of negative impacts, be it overexploited fish stocks, plastics pollution, degrading marine food webs, increasingly fragile coastal ecosystems or biodiversity loss accelerated by ocean warming and acidification. Yet, at the very crest of their vulnerability, Canada’s oceans may stand to benefit from a potentially transformative decade.
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