Protozan ectosymbionts on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in a Hatchery in Hordaland, Western Norway: Morphology and Epizootiology

• Main Author: Isaksen, Trond Einar
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: Norwegian Bokmål
• Published: The University of Bergen 2003
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; Blanchard; Krasin; Norway; Pollard; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1956/1622

Protozoan ectosymbionts are commonly found on salmonids in Norwegian lakes and rivers. Salmon in hatcheries supplied with water from such watercourses are often infected with such organisms. Despite extensive salmon production, little is known about the infection dynamics of these symbionts on hatch...