Salmon Coast Research Station - Part 2

In this episode we visit with Martin Krkosek and his research crew who conducting experiments to determine what kind of effect the sea lice are having on the wild salmon fry's ability to escape from voracious predators like Coho. It begs the question- would you like a big raccoon hanging off your back when you're running from a cougar?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wild
• salmon
• fry
• Broughton
• Archipelago
• sea
• lice
• research
• Morton
• Kroksek
• Stabel
• Roscovich
• fish
• farms
• farming
• aquaculture

[mattysco]

this is brilliant. thank you to all. i hope that we can either release billions of stickle backs but that will probably screw up the environment further or get rid of fish farms or make some sort of trap to catch the lice. some sort of pheremone based trap or species specific poison or send the fish farms at least 20km offshore so the waste of the fishes and lice stay far away and dont interact with the wild salmon. god bless u guys!

[danielledalzell]

Great little piece!

[asmailes]

Nice one you guys - really like the rhythm - great editing:)! Like the music too - and the images (as usual). Feels like you're working up to a bit of a climax with these episodes (in about three or four more) going down through the layers of the problem - past the obvious source of the problem to the less obvious ones - but don't hold back on any of the layers!!!!

[osmia]

Good to see that the research is continuing.