Marine Harvest publicizes its progress in minimizing sea lice

CAMPBELL RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Marine Harvest Canada, BC's largest aquaculture company, is using full-page advertisements in North Island Gazette and Victoria Times-Colonist to update the public on its success in minimizing the number of sea lice on its farmed fish in the Broughton Archipelago area during the current out-migration of wild juvenile salmon.

The sea lice update shows that four of its Broughton farms are now empty of fish. Six other farms show sea lice levels of no more than 0.2 lice per farmed fish, well under the provincial government's threshold limit of 3 lice per fish at which time fish must be treated to eliminate the lice. The latest monitoring was completed in early March.

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