A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.

Marine Harvest Canada, BC's largest aquaculture company, is updating the public on its success in minimizing the number of sea lice on its farmed fish in the Broughton Archipelago region.

Marine Harvest Canada, www.marineharvestcanada.com, 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 Pacific Salmon Forum has issued the following statement concerning a study by Martin Krkosek of the University of Alberta and published in Science magazine.

Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, a natural parasite that normally attaches to adult salmon with little ill effect.