Lakseparasitten gyrodactylus er funnet på laksunger midtveis oppe i Rauma. Det kan bety at myndighetene utsetter rotenonbehandlingen av andre infiserte elver.  Etter at Rauma ble behandlet med rotenon i 1993, tydet alt på at elven snart kunne friskmeldes. Både i fjor og i år har det vært mye storlaks i elven. Den går nå stinn av gytefisk og laksunger.       Fiskeforvalter Leif Magnus Sættem i Møre og Romsdal er sjokkert over gyro-funnet og har slått alarm. Direktoratet for naturforvaltning (DN) kaller sammen til krisemøte til uken.      Ett av spørsmålene DN må vurdere er om planene for rotenonbehandling av Driva, landets beste sjøørret-vassdrag, må utsettes til man har funnet årsaken i Rauma.  Salmon parasite in Rauma The salmon parasite gyrodactylus is again revealed by scientists on salmon smolts midway up famous Norwegian salmon river Rauma. This may delay Norwegian plans to poison other gyro-infected rivers with rotenon.  Rauma was treated with rotenon in 1993. For a while everything seemed to go well. The river was supposed to be decleard free of gyrodactylus soon. These days a lot of spawning fish goes up river and the number of smolt is very high.  Fish management worker Leif Magnus Saettem in Moere and Romsdal is shocked by the new discovery of gyro. He has now decleared alert about the situation. Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (DN) is calling for an urgent crisis meeting this week.  One of the questions DN has to consider is this: What will now happen with the planned rotenon treatment of Driva River? Driva is today Norways best sea trout water system, but it is infected by gyrodactylus. An initiated poison programme for Drive may be postphoned until scientist know why treatment in Rauma River failed.  Copyright Jan Gunnar Furuly & Aftenposten 1996. No distribution in any form is allowed without permission from author.

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