'Cocaine salmon' swim faster and farther than sober fish in wild drug study
- Posted on April 20, 2026
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'Cocaine salmon' swim faster and farther than sober fish in wild drug study

Scientists tracking juvenile Atlantic salmon in a Swedish lake found cocaine pollution can alter fish behaviour in the wild, with exposed fish swimming up to 1.9 times farther