In article , Tom Nakashima
wrote:

I ran across an article in the current Patagonia catalog which caught my
attention on sea lice infestation in wild and farm raised salmon. Fist time
I heard of this, and recently started a bit of research. Has anyone here in
roff ingested salmon with sea lice? Any ill effects? Nothing to be alarmed
about? I eat salmon twice a month, may rethink now.
-tom


You're unlikely to eat them. You can see them quite easily on a
salmon's skin. I can't think, though, that if you did eat one they
could possibly do you any harm. they're quite normal on wild salmon -
indeed until recently were seen as a good sign, as they drop off fairly
soon after a fish reaches fresh water, and if you saw a few on a fish
you knew it was fresh - in other words had only very recently entered a
river system.

The problem is that fish farming has produced absurd amounts, which
have done massive damage to the sea-trout fishing in the west of
ireland.

Lazarus