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A Problem of Scale
Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state |
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27 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:18 PM on 27 Mar 2008 A virus called infectious salmon anemia is sweeping through Chile's fisheries, bringing attention to the condition of the country's third-largest export industry. On expansive salmon farms, fish are bred in crowded underwater pens. Fish poop and food pellets contaminate the water. As many as 1 million nonnative salmon escape each year, gobbling native species and traveling as far as Argentina. The ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (all these topics) |
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