ST. ANDREWS (New Brunswick) — Salmon have a lousy problem, and the race to solve it is spanning the globe. A surge of parasitic sea lice is disrupting salmon farms around the world. The tiny lice ...

Tesco has suspended its use of a fish farm in the north-west Highlands following allegations salmon infested with sea lice were left in a pen that was meant to be completely empty. Animal Equality UK ...

A young scientist has discovered a previously undescribed species of parasite that infects farmed fish and produces serious disease. Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to ...

One year, the pinks didn't come home. In 2002, 97% of the pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) that were expected to swim up rivers to spawn in British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago failed to ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered that a snail species carrying human-infecting flatworms known as trematodes is widespread in California. The scientists ...

University of Guelph provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Guelph provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Biologists study the social behaviour ...