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30/09/2013

Scotland targets Indian buyers to boost food exports, and there are reports that sea lice in Norway are posing a greater threat to wild salmon as fish farming expands.

Scottish food exporters are targeting India in a bid to expand food production. Buyers at a trade fair seem to like what they taste. Should other producers in the UK jump on this band wagon ?We also look to Norway where up to two million farmed salmon infested with sea lice are to be slaughtered over the next month, after becoming resistant to chemical treatment. The levels of sea lice on two farms were found to be over the legal limit and so the fish will be killed to protect wild salmon due to migrate through the area next spring. Adult wild salmon can live with a few lice, but their skin is too fragile to cope with what conservationists call the "sea lice soup" spread by farmed salmon. Charlotte hears from the Norwegian Seafood Council and speaks to a sea lice expert about the extent of the problem here in UK waters.

Presented by Charlotte Smith, and produced in Bristol by Anna Jones.

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11 minutes