In a recent study showing the decline of the wild salmon population, ecologists are sending out an SOS (Save our Salmon... okay, that was a bad pun) alert to the fish-farming industry to try and halt the possible extinction of the once abundant fish population.

It was derived from the study that the reason for its dwindling numbers are the lethal sea lice infestations from fish farms. Juvenile wild pink salmon often catch these sea lice when they swim through areas where salmon are raised in open-net farms.

The study was headed by Martin Krkosek, a fisheries ecologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He commented on the situation by saying: "There's only two generations left before these fish are gone."

According to the data, the wild salmon population has an estimated eight years before extinction if the current state of matters do not improve. The decline started around two generations ago and is slowly getting worse.

While there were doubters in the fish-farming industry, claiming that the analysis is flawed, the stakes for the seafood industry is high should this study prove true.