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A Problem of Scale Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state		27 Mar 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Coral Feckless Wild salmon and coral both in trouble, say studies		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:37 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Infestations of sea lice (ew) in salmon farms off the west coast of Canada are threatening local wild salmon populations -- to the extent that the wild fish could be extinct within four years, says a new study published in Science. While the researchers focused on fish populations off the coast of British Columbia, they believe their findings could be applicable anywhere there's a high density of ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Bigger Fish to Fry? U.S. government wants to boost fish-farming industry		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 10 Dec 2007 Eighty percent of American fish dishes are imported, and the federal government is eager to get the U.S. seafood market on equal footing (finning?) by kicking off industrial-scale fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. Under regulations to be considered next month, fish born in laboratories would be transported to gigantic underwater cages capable of holding up to 100,000 pounds of sea critter ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, news (all these topics)

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