• Lakselusinfestasjon på vill laksefisk langs Norskekysten i 2020 Sluttrapport til Mattilsynet 

      Nilsen, Rune; Serra Llinares, Rosa Maria; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Johnsen, Ingrid Askeland; Mohn, Agnes Marie; Karlsen, Ørjan; Lehmann, Gunnar Bekke; Birkeland, Ina Bakke; Stöger, Elisabeth; Lennox, Robert J.; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Berg, Marius (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020-12-10)
      Overvåkingsprogrammet for lakselus på vill laksefisk (NALO) er i 2020 gjennomført på oppdrag fra Mattilsynet (MT) og Nærings- og Fiskeridepartementet (NFD). En hydrodynamisk spredningsmodell som beregner tetthet av infektive lakseluskopepoditter i vannmassene ble som tidligere år kjørt ukentlig for hele Norskekysten. Innsatsen på overvåking av utvandrende postsmolt laks er holdt på samme nivå som i ...
    • Optimal estimation of lice release from aquaculture based on ambient temperatures 

      Johnsen, Ingrid A.; Stien, Lars Helge; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Asplin, Lars; Oppedal, Frode (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-30)
      Models for mapping and forecasting infective pressure from salmon louse <i>Lepeophtheirus salmonis</i> larvae are of major importance in the Norwegian government’s management of salmonid aquaculture. These models use site-reported temperature and number of egg-producing female adult lice present within cages to calculate how many lice eggs and larvae are released from individual farms. The reported ...
    • Sampling planktonic salmon lice in Norwegian fjords 

      Skardhamar, Jofrid; Fagerli, Margrethe Nilsen; Reigstad, Marit; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Bjørn, Pål Arne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-19)
      Risk of mortality of wild salmon caused by salmon lice is used as an index for managing aquaculture production in Norway and is based on monitoring of lice attached to wild salmonids and modelled concentrations of lice larvae in fjords. Direct sampling of lice from Norwegian waters to determine concentrations has never been published scientifically and has been considered non-feasible for monitoring ...
    • Timing is everything: Survival of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar postsmolts during events of high salmon lice densities 

      Bøhn, Thomas; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Serra Llinares, Rosa Maria; Finstad, Bengt; Primicerio, Raul; Nilsen, Rune; Karlsen, Ørjan; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Skilbrei, Ove Tommy; Elvik, Kristine Marit Schrøder; Skaala, Øystein; Bjørn, Pål Arne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-07)
      <ol> <li>Atlantic salmon in aquaculture act as reservoir hosts and vectors of parasites like salmon lice and this parasite is shown to harm wild salmonid populations.</li> <li>In this study, <i>n</i> = 29,817 tagged Atlantic salmon were studied in four release trials. Half of the released fish were given prophylactic treatment against lice, the other half represented sham control fish. We used ...