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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
卷 67, 期 12, 页码 1925-1932出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/F10-105
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- B.C. Pacific Salmon Forum
- Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Ritchie Foundation
- Sandler Foundation
- Vancouver Foundation
- Tom Buell Endowment Fund
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Salmon farms are spatially concentrated reservoirs of fish host populations that can disrupt natural salmonid host-parasite dynamics. Sea lice frequently infect farm salmon and parasitize sympatric wild juvenile salmonids, with negative impacts on survival in Europe and Pacific Canada. We examined louse parasitism of wild juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) and pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) from three salmon farming regions in British Columbia (Finlayson, Broughton Archipelago, and Georgia Strait). We compared sites of low and high exposure to farms and included an area without farms (Bella Bella) to assess baseline infection levels. Louse prevalence and abundance were lowest and most similar to natural baseline levels at low-exposure sites and highest at high-exposure sites in all farm regions. A significantly greater proportion of the lice were Lepeophtheirus salmonis at high-exposure sites. Exposure to salmon farms was the only consistently significant factor to explain the variation in prevalence data, with a secondary role played by salinity. Our results support the hypothesis that salmon farms are a major source of sea lice on juvenile wild salmon in salmon farming regions and underscore the importance of using management techniques that mitigate threats to wild stocks.
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