Sea lice science ain’t done yet
Salmon Farm Science, June 7, 2012
The science is never done, even if some people think they’ve “figured it out.” And it’s a good thing researchers haven’t given up on researching sea lice in B.C. because we apparently still have an awful lot still to learn.
Six UBC scientists have just published an interesting paper titled “Physiological consequences of the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) on juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha): implications for wild salmon ecology and management, and for salmon aquaculture.” It was published by the Philosophical Proceedings of the Royal Society B and is available to read online (we will be adding the PDF version to our library at a later date).
There is a lot of interesting information in this study, which looked at the real-world physiological effects of sea lice infestation on wild salmon.
For years, critics of salmon farms have claimed that sea lice from salmon farms are killing wild salmon. However, there has never been any evidence to support this claim, only sketchy predictions from mathematical modelling studies.
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