Effects of parasites from salmon farms on productivity of wild salmon

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Krkošek, Martin, Connors, Brendan M., Morton, Alexandra, Lewis, Mark A., Dill, Lawrence M., Hilborn, Ray
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; British Columbia; Canada; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Copepods
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167527; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21873246; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101845108

The ecological risks of salmon aquaculture have motivated changes to management and policy designed to protect wild salmon populations and habitats in several countries. In Canada, much attention has focused on outbreaks of parasitic copepods, sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis), on farmed and wild s...