Expanding fish farming is one way to meet the demand of the world's growing population. Fish farms are known to experience outbreaks of sea lice that make their products unmarketable. But fixing the ...

Two newly published reports reveal that the threat from sea lice to wild fish populations is of serious concern and widely associated with fish farming activity. Aberfeldy, Scotland - Two newly ...

As a result, lice larvae are present at high levels in the waters around the farms and attack juvenile pink salmon (and other species) as they move past on their way to the open ocean. The fish ...

The fish making the journey back to spawn were dead or dying. They were covered in sea lice - a naturally occurring parasite that can breed in huge numbers on salmon farms. Mr Hopper says ...