Nonlethal Assessment of Juvenile Pink and Chum Salmon for Parasitic Sea Lice Infections and Fish Health

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Krkošek, Martin, Morton, Alexandra, Volpe, John P.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2005
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Keta; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/t04-133.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T04-133.1

Abstract Industrial salmon farming has been correlated with infestations of parasitic sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis in adjacent wild juvenile salmonids and declines of sympatric wild salmonid populations. Prohibitively large financial, human, and logistical resource requirements prevent the imple...