Counting sea lice on Atlantic salmon farms - Empirical and theoretical observations

Aquaculture

Volumn 320, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 149-153

  Heuch, Peter A ^a   Gettinby, George ^b   Revie, Crawford W ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Lice counts; Lice distribution; Sampling; Sea lice

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAGE CULTURE; CRUSTACEAN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECISION; SALMONID FISHERY; SAMPLING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CANADA; NORWAY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

PHTHIRAPTERA; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 80054019713     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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