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Parasitic Sea Lice Threaten Salmon Farming

 By Theodora Filis Salmon farmers around the world consider sea lice to be the most dangerous threat to their industry. Salmon farms and their farmers are being disrupted around the world because of sea lice attaching themselves to, and feeding on, the #Salmon. This is causing many salmon to die or making them unsuitable for people to consume. Price of salmon going up Salmon prices are going up as much as fifty-percent - wholesale - from last year. That means as consumers we will see higher prices for salmon stakes, fillets, and the lox on our bagels. Vice President of Cooke Aquaculture, Jake Elliott, from Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada, said that the salmon #Farmers need to be quicker and work faster than the lice. New and established ways are being used Both new and established technology will be needed in order to defeat the lice, experts say. Older tools like pesticides and more recent practices like breeding for genetic resistance need to be tried...