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[Jirel]

5. Not one bit.

The only problem with them is that salmon farms are a perfect breeding ground for them. They can weaken and kill fish if too many of them start attaching and sucking. If a fish escapes, it can aid proliferation in the wild population, where they always have been. Wild salmon head into fresh water to spawn, and these crustaceans die, so young salmon aren’t at risk. But if you basically create an epidemic in the areas that wild salmon swim in the ocean, you’ll kill off wild salmon in droves.

It’s not icky or damaging to us in any way. But it’s potentially an environmental problem for wild salmon.