From The Vancouver Sun:
"Several years ago David Suzuki said that he uncovered the "fact" that "B.C. farmed salmon is heavily contaminated with PCBs and other toxins."
His study had only eight fish, and mercury levels were higher in the wild salmon. PCBs are in all foods. In the Suzuki Foundation's study, farmed salmon had less than three per cent of the tolerable level. Tuna and sardines have higher levels of PCBs than farmed salmon, Harvard research shows.
The David Suzuki Foundation claims sea lice originating from salmon farms put wild salmon at risk of extinction but sea lice levels at salmon farms were never measured..."
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