Norwegian Salmon Producers Designing Massive Deep Sea Fish Pens to Escape Sea Lice
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Thomson reutters] by Alister Doyle and Ole Petter Skonnord - April 21, 2017
Atlantic salmon farming companies are designing huge pens to raise fish in the open seas in a radical shift from calm coastal waters where marine lice have slowed growth of the billion-dollar industry.
The drive for new designs by Norway, producer of 54 percent of all farmed Atlantic salmon in 2016, will have to cope with ocean storms that can rip cages and free thousands of fish. Escapees disrupt natural stocks by breeding with wild...
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