Article
Effects of thermal and mechanical delousing on gill health of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)
2022-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Widespread resistance to medicinal delousing compounds has resulted in non-medicinal delousing methods being the preferred treatment option for sea lice infestation in Norwegian aquaculture. Thermal delousing involves submerging fish in water with a temperature of 28–34 °C for 20–30 s, while mechanical delousing entails removing the lice with flushing, brushing or turbulence. As mechanical and thermal delousing be...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2b8de515-4053-5325-8195-d349e8a682a2
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738019
