Stewart C. Johnson, Jim W. Treasurer, Sandra Bravo, Kazuya Nagasawa, and Zbigniew
Kabata (2004) A review of the impact of parasitic copepods on marine aquaculture�…

This review was prompted by reports of unusually large numbers of sea lice tentatively
identified as Caligus elongatus infesting farmed salmon in northern Norway. Following a�…

The economic cost of a problem may be the best metric for prioritizing research and
management resources. Other metrics could be based on fish welfare, and risks or impacts�…

ABSTRACT Sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kr�yer) and Caligus elongatus Nordmann
(Copepoda: Crustacea), damage, weaken and kill salmon, may transmit microbial�…

Fishes farmed in sea pens may become infested by parasites from wild fishes and in turn
become point sources for parasites. Sea lice, copepods of the family Caligidae, are the best�…

A survey of parasitic copepods carried out in three introduced salmonid species in Southern
Chile and 5 native fish species commonly found in the vicinity of the fish farm cages yielded�…

Sea lice are copepod ectoparasites with vast reproductive potential and affect a wide variety
of fish species. The number of parasites causing morbidity is proportional to fish size�…

The most important metazoan parasites of farmed Atlantic salmon are the sea lice
Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus elongatus. Adults of these caligid copepods are�…

This book is a generic revision of the entire caligid family, which has not been reviewed and
revised since its establishment in 1834 by Burmeister. It includes detailed descriptions of all�…

Wojciech Piasecki, Andrew E. Goodwin, Jorge C. Eiras, Barbara F. Nowak (2004)
Importance of copepoda in freshwater aquaculture. Zoological Studies 43 (2): 193-205. In�…