• Applying genetic technologies to combat infectious diseases in aquaculture 

      Robinson, Nicholas Andrew; Robledo, Diego; Sveen, Lene; Daniels, Rose Ruiz; Krasnov, Aleksei; Coates, Andrew; Jin, Ye Hwa; Barrett, Luke T.; Lillehammer, Marie; Kettunen, Anne Helena; Phillips, Ben L.; Dempster, Tim; Doeschl-Wilson, Andrea; Samsing, Francisca; Difford, Gareth Frank; Salisbury, Sarah; Gjerde, Bjarne; Haugen, John-Erik; Burgerhout, Erik; Dagnachew, Binyam Sime; Kurian, Dominic; Fast, Mark D.; Rye, Morten; Salazar, Marcela; Bron, James E.; Monaghan, Sean J.; Jacq, Celeste; Birkett, Mike; Browman, Howard I.; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit; Fields, David M.; Selander, Erik; Bui, Samantha; Sonesson, Anna Kristina; Skugor, Stanko; Østbye, Tone-Kari K; Houston, Ross D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Disease and parasitism cause major welfare, environmental and economic concerns for global aquaculture. In this review, we examine the status and potential of technologies that exploit genetic variation in host resistance ...
    • Effect of water temperature and exposure duration on detachment rate of salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis); testing the relevant thermal spectrum used for delousing 

      Nilsson, Jonatan; Barrett, Luke T.; Mangor-Jensen, Anders; Nola, Velimir; Harboe, Torstein; Folkedal, Ole (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Thermal delousing has become the most applied method for treatment against salmon lice. However, the temperature range used is strongly aversive for salmonids, and the method is associated with increased mortality. Treatment ...
    • Farmed salmonids drive the abundance, ecology and evolution of parasitic salmon lice in Norway 

      Dempster, Tim; Overton, Kathy; Bui, Samantha; Stien, Lars Helge; Oppedal, Frode; Karlsen, Ørjan; Coates, Andrew; Phillips, B. L.; Barrett, Luke T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Sea cage fish farming is typically open to the environment, with disease transmission possible between farmed and wild hosts. In salmonid aquaculture, salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis infestations cause production ...
    • Prevention not cure: a review of methods to avoid sea lice infestations in salmon 1 aquaculture 

      Barrett, Luke T.; Oppedal, Frode; Robinson, Nicholas Andrew; Dempster, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry still struggles with ectoparasitic sea lice despite decades of research and development invested into louse removal methods. In contrast, methods to prevent infestations before they ...
    • Salmon lice survive the straight shooter: A commercial scale sea cage trial of laser delousing 

      Bui, Samantha; Geitung, Lena; Oppedal, Frode; Barrett, Luke T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Ectoparasitic salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestations are costly for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farmers in Norway. As a result, there is a strong desire for solutions to prevent and control infestations, and ...
    • Tag use to monitor fish behaviour in aquaculture: a review of benefits, problems and solutions 

      Macaulay, Georgia; Warren-Myers, Fletcher; Barrett, Luke T.; Oppedal, Frode; Føre, Martin; Dempster, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A variety of tagging techniques are now available to monitor fish behaviour, physiology and their environmental experience. Tagging is frequently used in aquaculture research to monitor free-swimming individuals within ...
    • Where art thou louse? A snapshot of attachment location preferences in salmon lice on Atlantic salmon hosts in sea cages 

      Bui, Samantha; Oppedal, Frode; Velimir, Nola; Barrett, Luke T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Problematic sea lice infestations on farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) have motivated extensive research and development into new methods to prevent, monitor and control sea lice. Most of these technologies require ...