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Fraser River Sockeye and Sea Lice
Submitted by delores on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 14:04.
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Printer-friendly versionTwyla Roscovich has a video on her website, www.callingfromthecoast.com
of a research project underway in the Discovery Islands off of Campbell River where a small crew is sampling the juvenile sockeye salmon from the Fraser along their out migration to sea. Most of the Fraser sockeye travel up the Inside Passage and past many of British Columbia’s 130+ industrial salmon farming operations. The sampling crew is finding alarming levels of lice on these juvenile fish, which represent Canada’s most important run of salmon. Twyla's beautiful and sometimes heart-breaking work is always worth a look.
