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With Norway’s Fishermen-Turned-Bounty Hunters, Chasing 27,000 Salmon Who Fled The Farm

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Post date March 4, 2025

This farmed salmon went into the net of the fisherman. Ricarda Richter/DIE ZEIT

When 27,000 farmed salmon escape from a Norwegian aquaculture facility, it sets off a high-stakes chase that could determine the fate of wild salmon populations. With a bounty on each fish, local fishermen set out to recapture them — both for profit and to protect the fragile ecosystem.

Tags accident, ecosystem, environment, fish farm, fish farming, fisheries, fishermen, oddity, salmon, salmon farming, seafood

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Wild Salmon Are Dying – Are Fish Farms Responsible?

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Post date November 12, 2012

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, BBC (U.K.), DER SPIEGEL (Germany) Worldcrunch LONDON – A long-term international study of wild Atlantic salmon has discovered that large numbers of free-ranging salmon are being killed by parasitic sea lice, the BBC has reported. Sea lice, which attach themselves to salmon and then eat their flesh, blood and tissue, […]

Tags anadromous fish, aquaculture, copepods, deaths, fish farming, international study, ireland, krkosek, marine ecosystem impact, microchips, Otago, parasite, Royal Society biological sciences, salmon farming, sea lice, smolts, tagged, wild Atlantic salmon, wild Atlantic salmon sea lice

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