Sea lice and pink salmon declines: A response to Brooks and Jones (2008)

Reviews in Fisheries Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-420

  Krkošek, Martin ^a   Ford, Jennifer S ^b   Morton, Alexandra ^c   Lele, Subhash ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Salmon Coast Field Station British Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Conservation; Population dynamics; Salmon; Sea lice; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 42549105892     PISSN: 10641262     EISSN: 15476553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10641260802013692     Document Type: Article

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