Evaluating the effect of clustering when monitoring the abundance of sea lice populations on farmed Atlantic salmon

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 773-783

  Revie, C W ^a   Gettinby, G ^a   Treasurer, J W ^b   Wallace, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Blar Mhor Industrial Estate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster random sampling; Intra class correlation; Lepeophtheirus salmonis; Population monitoring; Salmo salar; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MONITORING; SALMONID; SALMONID CULTURE;

LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 15944391013     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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