The effect of continuous light at low temperatures on growth in Atlantic salmon reared in commercial size sea pens

• Published in: Aquaculture
• Main Authors: Imsland, Albert, Roth, Bjørn, Fjelldal, Per Gunnar, Stefansson, Sigurd Olav, Handeland, Sigurd Olav, Mikalsen, Bjørn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Salmon; Temperature; Photoperiod; Growth; Vertebra morphology; Norway; Slaughter; Atlantic salmon; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/17024; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.07.014

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of continuous light of different duration, applied from late autumn to spring in the second year of the production cycle, on the production performance of Atlantic salmon in Northern Norway. The underlying hypothesis is that the introduction of con...