Sea lice dispersion and salmon survival in relation to salmon farm activity in the Broughton Archipelago.

• Main Authors: Alexandra Morton, Rick Routledge, Amy Mcconnell, Martin Krkošek, A Morton, R Routledge, A Mcconnell, Krkošek, M
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Keta; Pacific; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1082.329

The risk of salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) transmission to wild juvenile Pacific salmon has spurred management change to reduce lice on salmon farms. We studied the abundance of planktonic lice preceding the juvenile salmon outmigration as well as the abundance of lice on juvenile pink (Oncor...