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Biophysical Factors Impacting Sea Lice Settlement and Survival.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biophysical Factors Impacting Sea Lice Settlement and Survival./
Author:	Glahn, Eleanor R.
Description:	1 online resource (72 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-04.
Subject:	Infections. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380488181

Biophysical Factors Impacting Sea Lice Settlement and Survival.
Glahn, Eleanor R.

Biophysical Factors Impacting Sea Lice Settlement and Survival. - 1 online resource (72 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Maine, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) aquaculture production in Maine is a valuable contributor to the economy, the expansion of which has been challenged by the parasitic salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis. As planktonic organisms, the life of the salmon louse is primarily dictated by the physical conditions of the environment: the temperature for development time, salinity for survival, and current velocity for transport. Salmon lice are obligate parasites for whom the successful infection of a suitable host is critical to completion of their life cycle. However, little is understood about the effects of current velocity on infection success. Hydrodynamic models are tools that describe the physical conditions of the marine environment and have been combined with particle tracking models to predict the dispersal of sea lice in salmon-farming areas in other countries, including Norway, Scotland, Canada, and the Faroe Islands. These models vary in scope, however, many lack a parameter for the effect of velocity on attachment. The purpose of the experiments conducted as part of this thesis is to provide such a parameter for inclusion in a model for sea lice dispersal in Cobscook Bay, one of the primary sites of net pen salmon farming in the United States.PIT-tagged Atlantic salmon were challenged with a standardized dose of salmon lice at low, moderate, and high current velocities commonly experienced by salmon in net-pens in Cobscook Bay at 5, 10, and 15 cm sec-1 (0.10, 0.19, and 0.29 knots), respectively. Mean percent settlement was calculated for each velocity group, and a permutation-based ANOVA was conducted to determine if significant differences existed between groups. Percent settlement was significantly different in all three velocity groups, with optimum settlement occurring at moderate velocity, with high velocity resulting in the lowest average settlement success. The results of this study exhibit similar patterns to what has been observed in other studies and are discussed with respect to sentinel cage surveys previously conducted in Cobscook Bay.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380488181Subjects--Topical Terms:

882242
Infections.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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