Við óskum meistara David Attenborough til hamingju með 100 ára afmælið í dag!
Attenborough hefur vakið athygli á stöðu villtra laxastofna. Daily Mail fjallaði um varnaðarorð hans fyrir nokkrum árum:
Sir David Attenborough has accused fish farms of ‘threatening the very survival’ of wild salmon.
In a YouTube film to mark the International Year of the Salmon (IYS), the broadcaster and conservationist warns: ‘The survival of these astonishing fish is at risk.
‘Dams blocking their rivers, over-exploitation, pollution of the water, the spread of parasites, diseases, and fish escaping from open-cage salmon farms… all these, together with the inevitable effects of climate change, are threatening their very survival.’
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Global populations of wild Atlantic salmon have fallen from between eight to ten million in the 1970s to between three to four million today.
Critics say intensive farming increases the number of diseases and parasites such as sea lice, which then spread into the sea and attack wild fish.
They also fear fish escaping from farms – most of which are in Scotland – breed with wild salmon and weaken the genes of the wild fish.