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Subject: Poison Algae Threatens Norway's Salmon Farms
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:32:22 -0600
From: David & Linda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linda & David Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Reuters | SPACE.com | AP
Tuesday March 27 12:17 PM ET
Poison Algae Threatens Norway's Salmon Farms
By Jan Oscar de Besche
OSLO (Reuters) - Poisonous algae in the sea off south Norway
is endangering thousands of tones of salmon in another
threat to European food production, Norwegian officials said
on Tuesday.
They said Norwegian-farmed Atlantic salmon were in danger of
being engulfed by a giant swathe of slimy green algae that
suffocates the fish and makes them inedible for humans.
Olav Lekve, spokesman of the Norwegian Directorate of
Fisheries, told Reuters that the algae has already killed
700 tones of salmon in recent days at farms on the southern
tip of Norway. The country is the top world producer of
Atlantic salmon, farming about 400,000 tones a year.
``This could be the worst algae invasion ever for Norwegian
fish farms,'' he said.
He said the algae, apparently a Japanese strain that first
appeared in the North Sea in 1996, could threaten farms with
4,000 tones if winds and currents sweep it westwards round
the coast.
The slimy algae stick to fish gills, causing the salmon to
suffocate. The fish are then unfit for human consumption --
Arctic foxes and mink at fur farms end up dining on salmon.
The same kind of chattonella algae killed 350 tones of fish
off Norway in May 1998. In the worst case so far, about 800
tones of fish died in 1988 from a different type of algae
when Norway only farmed a fraction of its current output.
In the past fish farmers off south Norway have towed the
farms -- giant nets containing thousands of fish -- away
from the path of the algae into narrow fjords.
Lekve said that one farm in Farsund said that 1,000 fish had
died in the latest attack. Each fish weighs about four kg.
Salmon prices have been underpinned in recent months by
European consumers shifting to fish and away from meat in
the wake of the foot-and-mouth epidemic and mad cow disease.
Shares in Norway's biggest salmon producer, Pan Fish, were
down 0.5 Norwegian crown ($0.055) on Tuesday afternoon at
62. Its shares have ranged from a low of 15 in January a
year ago to a high of 81.5 in August.
In another headache for the Norwegian fish farms, Russia
banned imports of Norwegian fish as part of a three-week ban
on meat imports from Europe aimed at preventing the spread
of foot-and-mouth disease, Norwegian media said.
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