'Cleaner fish' keeping salmon farms healthy

Salmon farmers on the west coast have enlisted the help of a natural ally in their fight against a marine parasite.

Sea lice feed on farmed salmon and can spread to wild stocks.

Small "cleaner" fish, called ballan wrasse, are being put in salmon cages to target the sea lice and protect the environment.

BBC Scotland's business correspondent David Henderson reports.

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