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

MJ Costello - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fishes farmed in sea pens may become infested by parasites from wild fishes and in turn
become point sources for parasites. Sea lice, copepods of the family Caligidae, are the best …

Applying genetic technologies to combat infectious diseases in aquaculture

NA Robinson, D Robledo, L Sveen… - Reviews in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disease and parasitism cause major welfare, environmental and economic concerns for
global aquaculture. In this review, we examine the status and potential of technologies that …

Salmon lice biology, environmental factors, and smolt behaviour with implications for the Norwegian salmon farming management system: A critical review

S van Nes, AKD Imsland, SRM Jones - Reviews in Aquaculture, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In 2017, a new regulatory management system, the traffic light system (TLS), was
implemented to estimate the effects of salmon lice from Norwegian salmon aquaculture on …

Fish immune responses to parasitic copepod (namely sea lice) infection

MD Fast - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2014 - Elsevier
Parasitic copepods, in particular sea lice, have considerable impacts upon global freshwater
and marine fisheries, with major economic consequences recognized primarily in …

Investigating dynamics, etiology, pathology, and therapeutic interventions of Caligus clemensi and Vibrio alginolyticus co-infection in farmed marine fish

M Abdelsalam, MM Attia, MS Marzouk, RMS Korany… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
This study investigated a disease outbreak characterized by caligid copepod infestations
and subsequent secondary bacterial infections in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) …

Effects of host migration, diversity and aquaculture on sea lice threats to Pacific salmon populations

M Krkošek, A Gottesfeld, B Proctor… - … of the Royal …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal migrations can affect disease dynamics. One consequence of migration common to
marine fish and invertebrates is migratory allopatry—a period of spatial separation between …

Sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer 1837), infected Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) are more susceptible to infectious salmon anemia virus

SE Barker, IR Bricknell, J Covello, S Purcell, MD Fast… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The role of parasitic sea lice (Siphonostomatoida; Caligidae), especially Lepeophtheirus
salmonis, in the epidemiology of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAv) has long been …

Pacific and Atlantic Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1838) are allopatric subspecies: Lepeophtheirus salmonis salmonis and L. salmonis oncorhynchi subspecies …

R Skern-Mauritzen, O Torrissen, KA Glover - BMC genetics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is a parasitic copepod that
infects salmonids in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Although considered as a single …

Comparative defense-associated responses in salmon skin elicited by the ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis

LM Braden, DE Barker, BF Koop, SRM Jones - … and Physiology Part D …, 2012 - Elsevier
Susceptibility among salmonids to the ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis is related to
inflammatory reactions at the site of parasite attachment. Salmon from two susceptible …

Sea-louse abundance on salmon farms in relation to parasite-control policy and climate change

SC Godwin, M Krkosek, JD Reynolds… - ICES Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The ectoparasitic copepods, sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus spp.), are major
pests to salmon aquaculture and can also affect the health and survival of wild salmon …