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8 million salmon have died in Norway over the past week, and algae is the cause

A surge of #algae has killed an estimated 8 million #salmon at Norwegian fish farms over the past week, wiping out more than half of this year’s expected sales growth.
The algae, which has spread at the coast of northern #Norway, sticks to the gills of the fish, suffocating them. Wild fish can swim away from the algae belt while farmed fish is trapped.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/surge-of-algae-kills-millions-of-salmon-in-norway

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