Data from: Cleaner fish escape salmon farms and hybridize with local wrasse populations

• Main Authors: Faust, Ellika, Halvorsen, Kim T, Andersen, Per, Knutsen, Halvor, Carl, André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Wrasse; Sea lice; Hybrid; RAD; Salmon; 2bRAD; Genomics; Norwegian Sea; Norway; Kattegat
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.161516; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tv553

The genetic impact of farmed fish escaping aquaculture is a highly debated issue. However, non-target species, such as cleaner fish used to remove sea lice from farmed fish, are rarely considered. Here we report that wild corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops), which are transported long distances to be...