Expanding fish farming is one way to meet the demand of the world's growing population. Fish farms are known to experience outbreaks of sea lice that make their products unmarketable. But fixing the ...

Dense populations of salmon in fish farms along Norway’s coastline cause lice outbreaks that affect wild fish more than is ...

Sea lice attracted by chemical signals from salmon, study finds. New international research led by Norway's Nofima sheds ...

Farmed salmon are fed on processed feed and treated with medicines to ward off disease and infestations such as sea lice, which can breed among the fish in the pens. The pens keep the fish ...

The system is also designed to look out for a perennially problematic visitor to fish farms - the parasitic sea louse. Lice attach to salmon and eat them, causing damage that can be fatal.