Sea‐louse parasites on juvenile wild salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, Canada

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Peacock, Stephanie J., Bateman, Andrew W., Krkošek, Martin, Connors, Brendan, Rogers, Scott, Portner, Lauren, Polk, Zephyr, Webb, Coady, Morton, Alexandra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Keta; Pacific; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1438; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecy.1438; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecy.1438

Abstract The global expansion of aquaculture has changed the structure of fish populations in coastal environments, with implications for disease dynamics. In Pacific Canada, farmed salmon act as reservoir hosts for parasites and pathogens, including sea lice ( Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus cl...