How sea lice from salmon farms may cause wild salmonid declines in Europe and North America and be a threat to fishes elsewhere

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3385-3394

  Costello, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Caligus; Ectoparasites; Epizootics; Lepeophtheirus; Trout

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ADAPTATION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECTOPARASITE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HYDROGRAPH; ISOPOD; JUVENILE; MARICULTURE; MORTALITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DECLINE; SALMONID FISHERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WILD POPULATION;

COPEPOD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTUARY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST; HYDROGRAPHY; INFESTATION; LARVA; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PISCICULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER; SALMON; SEASHORE; WILD ANIMAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

CALIGIDAE; CALIGUS; COPEPODA; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; PENNATULACEA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; COPEPODA; EUROPE; FISH DISEASES; NORTH AMERICA; SALMON;

EID: 70349624590     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0771     Document Type: Review

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