Gyrodactylus marinus infecting the gill filaments of farmed and wild Atlantic cod in Norway

• Main Author: Haugen, Pål
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2009
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Parasittologi: 484; BIO-3910; Brønnøysund; Norway; Øksfjord; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29496

Cod aquaculture is a rapidly expanding industry in Norway and with an increase of biomass in mariculture the concern for diseases spread to and from farmed populations of cod is increasing. The genus Gyrodactylus Nordmann, 1832 are parasitic monogeneans infecting teleost fish in marine and fresh wat...