Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES
Volume 41, Issue 11, Pages 1643-1651Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12870
Keywords
ballan wrasse; cleaner fish; pancreas disease; salmonid alphavirus
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The use of cleaner fish as a biological control for sea lice in Atlantic salmon aquaculture has increased in recent years. Wild-caught wrasse are commonly used as cleaner fish in Europe. In Ireland, samples of wrasse from each fishing area are screened for potential pathogens prior to their deployment into sea cages. Salmonid alphavirus was isolated from a pooled sample of ballan wrasse, showing no signs of disease, caught from the NW of Ireland. Partial sequencing of the E2 and nsP3 genes showed that it was closely related to the previously reported SAV subtype 6. This represents only the second isolation of this subtype and the first from a wild fish species, namely ballan wrasse.
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