Wild salmon migrating downstream toward the sea are being killed en route by sea lice from salmon fish farms, a new study finds.

The fatalities range from 9 percent in the early spring, when lice populations are low, to 95 percent in late spring, when the parasites form massive clouds that young salmon have to swim through.

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