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"Lepeophtheirus salmonis are naturally occurring parasites of wild salmon that latch onto the fishes’ skin in the open ocean. The sea lice are transmitted by a tiny free-swimming larval stage. Open-net salmon farms are a haven for these parasites, which feed on the fishes’ skin and muscle tissue. Adult salmon can survive a small number of lice, but wild juvenile salmon headed from the river to the sea are very small, thin-skinned, and highly vulnerable. When exposed in river estuaries containing numerous open-net farms, many young salmon are infected and do not survive as a result."