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Salmon farms criticised
By Charles Clover
Environment Editor - The Telegraph
31st May 2003
Farmed salmon outnumber wild salmon in the North Atlantic by 48 to one as a result of the failure of governments to protect wild stocks from damaging effects of fish farming, a report by conservationists said yesterday.
The report by WWF and the American-based Salmon Foundation, shows that seven salmon-farming countries including Britain have made little progress towards imposing the controls on aquaculture that they agreed in 1994.
No country has complied with the recommendation to impose restrictions on salmon farms around important rivers for wild fish. The decline of wild salmon is linked with sea lice infestations from farmed salmon.
Scottish Quality Salmon, which represents the farmers, said the report was misleading.
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