Sea lice infection rates on juvenile chum salmon in a Salish Sea fjord with no Atlantic salmon net pens

• Main Authors: Wait, Micah, Fletcher, James, Tuohy, Adrian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2018
• Subjects: Salmon; Sea lice; Salmon farm impacts; Fresh Water Studies; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Natural Resources and Conservation; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Keta; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/7; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2442&context=ssec

In 2017, Wild Fish Conservancy documented sea louse (Lepeoptheirus salmonis) infection rates on juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) in the nearshore waters of Hood Canal, WA. Transmission of sea lice from the adult fish captive in salmon farms to wild outmigrating juvenile salmon has been posit...