Thursday, 26 January 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Sea lice, salmon - UK (Scotland), Norway, Canada

Pests -- United Kingdom
Lox lovers and sashimi devotees, prepare to shell out this year. According to the Nasdaq Salmon Index, salmon prices are at historic highs--and it's all because of one tiny, nefarious little creature.
The culprit behind the rising price of salmon is about the size of an aspirin: a parasite known as the sea louse, or salmon louse. Acute outbreaks in Scotland and Norway this year have eaten into the global supply of farmed Atlantic salmon. Norway, the planet's biggest salmon producer,

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2jXH7gR

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