TECHNICAL COMMENT Comment on “Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon”

salmon farms placed wild pink salmon populations “on a trajectory toward rapid local extinction.” Their prediction is inconsistent with observed pink salmon returns and overstates the risks from sea lice and salmon farming. Krkošek et al. (1) reported that sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) spread f...

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Main Authors: Brian E. Riddell, Richard J. Beamish, Laura J. Richards, John R. C
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Pink salmon
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.168.3429
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/322/5909/1790b.pdf
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Summary:salmon farms placed wild pink salmon populations “on a trajectory toward rapid local extinction.” Their prediction is inconsistent with observed pink salmon returns and overstates the risks from sea lice and salmon farming. Krkošek et al. (1) reported that sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) spread from salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago

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