Sustainable production and use of cleaner fish for the biological control of sea lice: recent advances and current challenges

• Published in: Veterinary Record
• Main Authors: Brooker, Adam J, Papadopoulou, Athina, Gutierrez, Carolina, Rey, Sonia, Davie, Andrew, Migaud, Herve
• Other Authors: Institute of Aquaculture, Mowi (Scotland), orcid:0000-0003-1776-4122, orcid:0000-0002-3406-3291, orcid:0000-0002-9524-618X, orcid:0000-0002-5404-7512
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMJ 2018
• Subjects: General Veterinary; General Medicine; Ballan; Atlantic salmon; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27595; https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104966; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/27595/1/Brooker_2018%28CleanerFishReview%29.pdf

Currently, cleaner fish are one of the most widely used sea lice control strategies in Atlantic salmon aquaculture. Two species are currently being farmed in North Atlantic countries, ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) and lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus), and the sector in most countries is rapidly expan...