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Originally posted by agentaqua
quote:Originally posted by Barbender
The truth is starting to come out finally about the anti farming groups and I think eventually most of them will be exposed as the charlatans they are. With regards to Miss Morton's peer reviewed junk science which one are you referring too? She seems to have a different report out each week (oddly with the same result each time). Most credible organizations will not acknowledge her work any more simply because it is not worth reviewing. I do not think I am being beligerent when I say that you are not here to discuss salmon fishing. 99% of my posts are about sportfishing. 99% of yours are anti fish farming. Just pointing out facts. No disrepect is intended just trying to seperate the fact from fiction.
As a side note how come you never wrote anything about the report recently that wild fish had far higher concentrations of mercury than farmed fish? I would think that would have been worth mentioning.
Barbender, some of the published and peer-reviewed scientific reports by Morton on sea lice and impacts of salmon farms include:
1/ Sea louse infestation in wild juvenile salmon and Pacific herring associated with fish farms off the east-central coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (2008)
2/ Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon. (2007)
3/ Epizootics of wild fish induced by farm fish. Proceedings of the National Acadamey of Sciences. (2006)
4/ Fulton's Condition Factor: Is it a valid measure of sea lice impact on juvenile salmon? (2006)
5/ Mortality rates for juvenile pink Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and chum O. keta salmon infested with sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the Broughton Archipelago (2005)
6/ Temporal patterns of sea louse infestation on wild pacific salmon in relation to the fallowing of Atlantic salmon farms (2005)
7/ Nonlethal assessment of juvenile pink and chum salmon for parasitic sea lice infections and fish health (2005)
8/ Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infection rates on juvenile pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and chum (Oncorhynchus keta) salmon in the nearshore marine environment of British Columbia, Canada (2004)
9/ A Description of Escaped Farmed Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar Captures and Their Characteristics in One Pacific Salmon Fishery Area in British Columbia, Canada, in 2000 (2002)
Some of the respected and prestigious journals that have published her stuff include:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Science
North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Alaska Fishery Research Bulletin
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Where did you say your stuff was published?