Recent research shows that salmon farms leads to a 50% higher amount of deaths of wild salmon in an area for every new generation of fish. Previous studies have shown that farmed salmon also breed with wild salmon while spreading diseases and worse. The researchers suggest better farm management however that’s tough because fish farming is getting so huge.
Salmon farming killing off wild salmon | Practical Fishkeeping magazine: “Salmon farming is slowly killing off wild salmon, according to a recent study by Canadian scientists. “
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