High host densities dilute sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis loads on individual Atlantic salmon, but do not reduce lice infection success

Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-89

  Samsing, Francisca ^a   Oppedal, Frode ^b   Johansson, David ^b   Bui, Samantha ^a   Dempster, Tim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Parasite; Salmo salar; Stocking density; Swimming speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985918273     PISSN: 1869215X     EISSN: 18697534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/aei00118     Document Type: Article

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