Sentinels in the bay: using farm fish to monitor for pathogens in the environment

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: St-Hilaire, S., Stephen, C., Kent, M., Ribble, C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2001
• Subjects: Regular Articles; The Sentinel; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/58/2/369; https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.2000.1022

Farmed Atlantic salmon were used in British Columbia as sentinels to determine whether fallowing farms and previously infected channels would effectively eliminate infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus from a region. The sentinel approach involved re-introducing salmon to a few strategicall...