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Mon 08 Aug 2010Open to persuasion
ANGLING NOTES:THE Atlantic Salmon Trust (AST) has called on governments to regulate sea lice control on a bay-by-bay management structure. In a policy document, it said: “This approach offers the best chance of protection to wild salmon and sea trout within salmon aquaculture areas”.
Supported with scientific advice from Prof Ken Whelan on the presence of sea louse on wild salmon, AST says the new approach could be summed up as a “local solution to a local problem”.
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