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Tag: salmon mass mortality

  • Saturday, March 9th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

    Mass mortality among farmed salmon in world's main producing countries, scientific report

    The report identified 865 million instances of salmon mortality between 2012 and 2022, that mortality increased throughout the decade.

    The frequency and scale of mass mortality events among farmed salmon have increased since 2012, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. In the paper from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, School of Environmental Studies, researcher Gerald Singh and colleagues analyzed salmon mortality data from Norway, Canada, the UK, Chile, Australia, New Zealand — countries that produced over 92% of the world’s farmed salmon in 2021 — between 2012 and 2022.