ToRs:
- Identify the possible effects of salmonid aquaculture on wild Atlantic salmon populations, focusing on the effects of sea lice, genetic interactions and the impact on wild salmon production.
- Based on the issues identified in 1:
- Update the findings of the 2005 ICES/NASCO symposium (LINK) on the impacts of aquaculture.
- Update of the 2014 ICES advice provided to OSPAR (ICES, 2014),
- Prepare the first draft of the advice to address the NASCO request.
WKCULEF will report by 11 March, 2016 for the attention of the Advisory Committee.
* NASCO will hold a Theme-based Special Session on the topic of developments in relation to minimizing the impacts of farmed salmon on wild salmon stocks and the advice will provide a very useful input to that process.