Elevated temperature promotes growth and feed efficiency of farmed ballan wrasse juveniles (Labrus bergylta)

• Published in: Aquaculture
• Main Authors: Cavrois-Rogacki, Thomas, Davie, Andrew, Monroig, Óscar, Migaud, Hervé
• Other Authors: Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Ballan wrasse; Cleaner fish; Digestibility; Nutrition; Recirculating aquaculture system; Temperatures; Ballan; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/202120; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734237

The expansion of ballan wrasse farming, used as a biological control against sea lice in Atlantic salmon, is constrained by the slow growth rate in the species and extended period required to reach deployment size. Rearing temperature and diets are the two main growth limiting factors in fish. In th...