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Monday, November 8, 2010

Council Upset With Pesticide's Approval

Health Canada's approval of a new pesticide for use at salmon farms has the Conservation Council up in arms. Salmosan has been approved for emergency use for the next year. The Conservation Council's science advisor Inka Milewski tells CHSJ News the salmon farms have been experiencing a serious problem with sea lice.

She says the solution is much simpler than using pesticides, it is to decrease the concentration of salmon in these farms and spread the farms further away from each other.

Milewski warns there are studies done by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans over the past ten years that reveal salmosan can kill lobsters and adversely affect their spawning at concentrations 10 times lower than the treatment dose used by the fish farms.