Morphological diet analysis of the lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus): a cleaner fish inside Newfoundland salmon sea cages

• Main Author: Roy, Jessica
• Other Authors: Boulding, Elizabeth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Guelph 2021
• Subjects: lumpfish; cleaner fish; morphological; diet; sea cages; salmon; Newfoundland; Canadian; aquaculture; salmon lice; sea lice; Canada; Fuller; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10214/25785

The lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) is a highly opportunistic cleaner fish used as a biological control in Atlantic salmon sea cages for an economically important ectoparasite, the salmon louse (Lepeophtherius salmonis). The objective of my research was to determine the relationship between lumpfish s...