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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages 241-249Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS
DOI: 10.1139/F10-150
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- British Columbia Pacific Salmon Forum
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- NSERC
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Les infections a poux de mer Lepeophtheirus salmonis affectent negativement Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infection negatively affected swimming performance and postswim body ion concentrations of juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) at a 0.34 g average body mass but not at 1.1 g. Maximum swimming velocity (U(max)) was measured on over 350 individual pink salmon (0.2-3.0 g), two-thirds of which had a sea lice infection varying in intensity (one to three sea lice per fish) and life stage (chalimus 1 to preadult). For fish averaging 0.34 g (caught in a nearby river free of sea lice and transferred to seawater before being experimentally infected), the significant reduction in U(max) was dependent on sea lice life stage, not intensity, and U(max) decreased only after the chalimus 2 life stage. Experimental infections also significantly elevated postswim whole body concentrations of sodium (by 23%-28%) and chloride (by 22%-32%), but independent of sea lice developmental stage or infection intensity. For fish averaging 1.1 g (captured in seawater with existing sea lice), the presence of sea lice had no significant effect on either U(max) or postswim whole body ions. Thus, a single L. salmonis impacted swimming performance and postswim whole body ions of only the smallest pink salmon and with a sea louse stage of chalimus 3 or greater.
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