The swimming performance and post-swim body ion concentrations of juvenile pink salmon, and the effect of parasitic sea lice on these parameters

Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Walbaum) stocks in the Broughton Archipelago BC have seen a general decline in recent years. This is thought to be due to parasitism by sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837), on pink salmon during early marine life stage. To investigate this, I measured...

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Main Author: Nendick, Laura J.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12630