Saving Our Salmon: A Landward Special

Broadcast October 2018. Courtesy of BBC Scotland

[@zooski1516]

Gentlemen this is far from only a sea lice problem as I am from Ontario Canada where our stocks have massively declined due to aqua culture. Here we suspect it’s due to disease near fish migrating paths from the pens as well as the waste and fish droppings that does not get cleaned leaving meters thick sludge underneath the pens which eventually disperses around the lake. Edit. Huron lake does not have sea lice.

[@thekurgan3688]

Aqua Culture is mentioned in the video, just saying.

[@normanmurray3659]

The fish farms in Orkney and Shetland affect the smolt and salmon runs on the East coast.

[@Fishwish]

Thanks for sharing this on the UK Fishing on Facebook group. It always amazes me how few anglers are aware of the environmental disaster unfolding before our eyes. The counter lobbying by commercial fish farms is mind boggling. Irrespective of whether people wish to believe there is a lice issue or not, the damage caused by nutrient loading, escapees, wrasse pilfering from the south coast, and harvesting of pelagic fish in poorly regulated seas for the fish feed, all amounts to a fairly reckless act.

[@michaelmcleod77]

Salmon jump in rivers naturally to help scrub off the lice , but that is wild salmon .

[@bw8669]

Man I wish they put subtitles like they do with African documentaries

[@baitrunner5193]

The cons outweigh the pros and anyone who can't see that is employed by a salmon farm.Those fish reared inland look mutant.very very sad

[@rbentful]

Salmon farms need to go

[@thekurgan3688]

The salmon farm guy says he doesn't like being at the top of the list of reasons for the decline in salmon. Well, when healthy salmon enter our water and then are eaten alive by Sea Lice produced on your fish farms, then your certainly in the top 2.

[@bw8669]

Are you able to tell if the salmon you get in shops are free of sea lice or at least weren't infected?

[@atlantic_fishing_pursuits]

All salmon from the shops will have salmon who have been eaten alive by sealice...you can sometimes see it by scarring on the meat of the salmon you buy from the shop..I've seen it and seen the holes and scars on salmon sold In the shop

[@lootchygootchy5711]

incredible

[@cammontreuil7509]

This may not be the best solution. But make a hatchery. Release them into the wild. The fish return. Sell them and start the process again. I know the return rate is low but this has got to be less impact on environment.

[@jamesmason8944]

The industrial sea fishing methods are depriving and decimating the wild salmon feed stocks.

[@bw8669]

I thought the guy had an annoying high pitch voice but he had to sing in the end...lol

[@cammontreuil7509]

Farm raised fish have a garbage diet and no exercise. What do you expect.

[@tonyclack5901]

Don't forget by the way that god also created these and all other parasites. The entity you all go and pray to.

[@rbentful]

A bunch of BS