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Cooke Aquaculture Receives 3.2 Million in Funding to Combat Sea Lice

September 18, 2016

Cooke Aquaculture Receives 3.2 Million in Funding to Combat Sea Lice

The largest producer of farmed salmon in the Maritimes is getting 3.2 million-dollars in federal funding to combat sea lice. Cooke Aquaculture is also contributing 1.9-million of it’s own money to develop a process for removing the parasite from farmed salmon. Cooke operates numerous sites in Nova Scotia under the name Kelly Cove Salmon – with farms located in Shelburne, St.Mary’s Bay and the Annapolis Basin. The 5.1 million-dollar project will attempt to use warm water to remove 95-percent of the lice. It’s hoped the new process will provide a green alternative to using chemicals.