Behavioral and depth preference for wrasse (Labridae) used as cleaner fish in salmon aquaculture

• Main Author: Kleppe, Johanne
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2023
• Subjects: cleaner fish; corkwing wrasse; ballan wrasse; Aquaculture; goldsinny wrasse; farmed ballan wrasse; 751999; Ballan; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3073013

Wild and farmed wrasse are used as cleaner fish in Norwegian salmon aquaculture as a biological remedy against the ectoparasite salmon lice. For wrasse to be a well-functioning cleaner fish, it is essential that the species can coexist with salmon in the cage environment. There have been reports of...