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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 province’s largest aquaculture company is getting 3.2 million-dollars in federal funding to combat sea lice. Cooke Aquaculture, based in Black’s Harbour, is also contributing 1.9-million of it’s own money to develop a process for removing the parasite from farmed salmon. The 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.