Up to five percent of farmed Atlantic salmon in the world's top producer Norway suffer deformities perhaps linked to growing too fast or pollution, a scientist said on Tuesday.
Deformities -- often a curved spine because young farmed fishes' flesh can grow too fast for their skeletons -- also affect fish in other nations and other farmed species like rainbow trout or sea bream in pens from Norway to Chile.
Up to 5 Pct of Farmed Salmon Deformed - Researcher