The World Wildlife Fund is facilitating a dialogue on impacts of salmon aquaculture. The
goal of the dialogue is to establish the state of knowledge in seven subject areas associated�…

Salmon lice, L epeophtheirus salmonis, are naturally occurring parasites of salmon in sea
water. Intensive salmon farming provides better conditions for parasite growth and�…

With the continued growth of the aquaculture industry and increasing scientific discussion
over the potential for negative events to give rise to suffering, research into the welfare of�…

The growth of Chilean salmon production has not been free of important sanitary and
environmental shortcomings. To ensure sustainability, it is necessary to understand the�…

Diseases are an important challenge in aquaculture. However, most of what is known about
the effect of diseases comes from laboratory experiments. Using a farm-level data set�…

Sea lice, especially Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus spp., have the greatest economic
impact of any parasite in salmonid fish farming and are also a threat to wild salmonids. Here�…

Factors such as limitations in water quality and quantity, cost of land, limitations on water
discharges, environmental impacts and diseases, are driving the aquaculture industry�…

Abstract Giant clams (Hippopus and Tridacna species) are thought to play various
ecological roles in coral reef ecosystems, but most of these have not previously been�…

Parasitic and infectious diseases are common in finfish, but are difficult to accurately
estimate the economic impacts on the production in a country with large dimensions like�…

Individual differences in physiological and behavioural responses to stressors are
increasingly recognised as adaptive variation and thus raw material for evolution and fish�…