Backyard Aquaponics
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Came across this news article and wanted to share:

A lethal and highly contagious marine virus has been detected for the first time in wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest, researchers in British Columbia said on Monday, stirring concern that it could spread there, as it has in Chile, Scotland and elsewhere.

Farms hit by the virus, infectious salmon anemia, have lost 70 percent or more of their fish in recent decades. But until now, the virus, which does not affect humans, had never been confirmed on the West Coast of North America.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/scien ... .html?_r=3

Another reason why we should only be farming intensively away from wild populations in contained environments. We have been using the sea as a dumping ground for many decades and we just can't abuse it like we have been. All intensive farming needs to have waste controlled, when it's in the ocean under the water less people care because you can't see it.