Salmon
farms are transferring sea lice to wild salmon in a much larger area of
British Columbia’s coastal waters than first thought, according to new
research by B.C. scientists. Fisheries scientists have long linked salmon farms in the Broughton
Archipelago, between the north end of Vancouver Island and the mainland,
with the sea lice that wild juvenile salmon pick up as they migrate
past farms on their way to the open ocean. The latest study, published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,
shows juvenile salmon picking up sea lice throughout the Georgia Strait
to the south and in Finlayson Channel on the Central Coast, northwest
of Bella Coola.  Read more of CBC story here