'Wild Salmon in Trouble' Animation

The Link Between Farmed Salmon, Sea Lice and Wild Salmon

Wild Salmon in Trouble, produced by Watershed Watch, a member organization of CAAR, is illustrated from the perspective of migrating wild salmon before and after the advent of salmon farming. It highlights the fact that even low numbers of sea lice on individual farmed salmon can translate to large numbers of sea lice being released into the nursery grounds of wild salmon. It also explains that although sea lice are a natural part of ocean ecosystems, sea lice from salmon farms are unnatural and may cause serious problems for juvenile wild salmon. The animation is based on published, peer-reviewed scientific research and foreshadows an unknown future for coastal ecosystems and communities unless we act now to protect wild salmon from farm derived sea lice.

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