BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A Swiss fisherman made an unusual catch in a tributary of the Rhine River near Basel -- the first wild salmon spotted so far up the Rhine in half a century.
Wild salmon are returning to the River Seine for the first time in almost a century, French scientists say.
Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales ... Centre. Concern over declining numbers of wild Atlantic salmon has led to the closure of most fisheries, and the growth ...
... in rivers and basins may limit the growth and size of wild salmon populations. In addition to the widespread deterioration ... the impact of pesticides, such as diazinon and malathion, on individual salmon using pre-existing data, and then devised ...
A group fighting to preserve stocks of wild salmon will present a petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for tougher policing of fish farms.
... to humans, it is a threat to aquaculture and it has the potential to spread to wild salmon," added Dr. Lipkin. To identify ... . The investigators also tested 66 samples obtained from wild salmon living in nine coastal rivers ...
... hear so much about missing wild salmon and recently a record run. But Simon Fraser University scientists say a population explosion of hatchery and wild salmon in the North Pacific Ocean is leading ...
... . "For anybody concerned about the effect of farm salmon on wild salmon, this is good news," Marty said. "Sea ... from fish farms have no significant effect on wild salmon population productivity." The new study ...
... .com) -- A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published today by an independent team ... have also shown, namely, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply and spread to wild salmon and decrease their survival ...
... have found that only about ten percent of the fall-run Chinook salmon spawning in California's Mokelumne River are naturally produced wild salmon. A massive influx of hatchery-raised ...
... raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat ... from...salmon.The studies provide new evidence that fast-growing hatchery fish compete with wild ... to support future increases in hatchery fish while still sustaining wild salmon. read ...
... 's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would ...
... . But acoustic telemetry was being developed rapidly and the Atlantic Salmon Federation recognized its potential as a tool to address ... ocean survival of both hatchery-raised and wild salmon. Preparations were made to scale up the demonstration ...
Alexandra Morton thinks salmon farms drove the whales away from the Queen Charlotte Strait of British Columbia and is fighting back.
... disease". There have been recent reports of PKD affecting wild salmon in Europe and North America, indicating that it is an emerging threat to these ecologically and economically important fisheries ...
