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Investigation · Fish · Scotland, Norway, Chile

Open-Net Salmon: Sea Lice and Mass Mortalities

Parasites and disease now kill a quarter of all farmed salmon before harvest.

2024 · We Animals Media, CIWF

Summary

Atlantic salmon are confined in densities that cause massive parasite outbreaks.

Mortality rate

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Deaths in Scotland

Part 1

Mass mortalities

Scotland reported 17.4 million deaths on-farm in 2023.

Sources

Where this reporting comes from

Compassion in World Farming

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