The 
Norwegian Food Safety Authority has reported a dramatic rise in sea 
louse , a parasite that infects salmon, is causing great concern in 
Norway as its populations triple in the crowded fish farms of the 
Norwegian fjords over the past year alone. Besides killing the farmed 
fish, environmentalists fear that this organism will further decimate 
already weakened wild salmon whose numbers have been reduced by half 
in
 the past decades. 
Meanwhile, a 23-year Finnish study has 
concluded that lethal strains of the bacteria Columnaris have developed 
in the confined conditions of ocean fish farms. This infection destroys 
the skin, fins, and gills of fish and is currently the leading cause of 
their death. With infected farmed fish that sometimes escape or are let 
loose by fish farmers who wish to avoid fines and costly clean-up, wild 
fish are thus being subjected 
to an increasing number of virulent 
diseases that originate from factory farms. 
Norwegian Food 
Safety Authority, we appreciate and share your concern for the 
well-being of wild fish and ocean life. May we all realize the damaging 
nature of meat and fish consumption and opt quickly for the 
life-enhancing vegan diet. 
Supreme Master Ching Hai has often 
spoken of the  tolls endured by the Earth’s animal inhabitants, 
addressing our need to halt the devastating practice of fishing as 
during a November 2008 interview with Ireland’s East Coast Radio FM.
Supreme
 Master Ching Hai: We have to stop it. Just stop the fishing. The
 government has to forbid fishing because it’s too important to our 
survival to delay any further. To stop this destructive practice of 
fishing, the solution is the vegan diet, no fishy stuff in our meals. 
The sea offers us plenty of better food choices; the wide varieties of 
super healthy and nutritious sea plants. We can even live on it 
forever.  We must protect a living and healthy sea, as it relates to our
 living and healthy self. 
http://www.naturalnews.com/027809_farmed_fish_disease.html
 http://www.wildforsalmon.com/aboutscokeye.html http://users.jyu.fi/~pukaan/
  http://www.france24.com/en/node/4955477
 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1803174/norwegian_salmon_affected_by_lice/