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Independent: Farmed salmon escaping into rivers and the sea are posing such a threat to declining wild populations that sterilisation should be compulsory, researchers have concluded.
Millions of farmed salmon are able to escape globally each year and there is increasing evidence they are destroying genetic traits evolved by the wild populations.
More than 95 per cent of the world’s Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, are farmed, and a new study assessing their breeding capacity has found that the farmed stocks......
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Sterilise farmed salmon to save wild species, critics say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation