Offshore aquaculture has gained momentum in recent years, and the production of an
increasing number of marine fish species is being relocated offshore. Initially, predictions of …

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) are increasingly being used as cleaner fish to control
parasitic sea lice, one of the most important threats to salmon farming. However, lumpfish …

Demand for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) has increased exponentially over the last
decade, both for their roe, which is used as a caviar substitute, and increasingly also as …

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) are increasingly being used as cleaner fish to control
parasitic sea-lice in salmon farming, but cleaning rates are very variable and not all …

Fish welfare, defined by Stien et al.,(2013) as the “quality of life as perceived by the animals
themselves” requires various tools to assess and evaluate it (see eg Noble et al., 2018) …

VKM rapportmal - Rensefisk v2 Page 1 VKM Report 2019: 15 Assessment of the risk to
Norwegian biodiversity from import of wrasses and other cleaner fish for use in aquaculture …

Lumpfish is now the single most important cleaner fish species to date and there is an
extensive lumpfish translocation along the Norwegian coast. A reliable baseline information …

Lumpfish (C. lumpus) are used as cleaner fish in the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farming
industry to remove parasitic sea lice. At present, wild lumpfish broodstock are used which …

Samples from moribund lumpfish were collected in a marine hatchery in Scotland in 2015.
Black nodules were noted on the skin, and gills and fungal hyphae were extensively …

Hovedmålet med prosjektet har vært å utvikle og levere robuste og kunnskapsbaserte
operative velferdsindikatorer som kan brukes for å sikre god velferd hos rensefiskartene …