• Effects of salmon lice infection on the behaviour of sea trout in the marine phase 

      Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Serra-Llinares, Rosa Maria; Hedger, Richard David; Arechavala-Lopez, Pablo; Nilsen, Rune; Finstad, Bengt; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Skilbrei, Ove Tommy; Bjørn, Pål Arne (Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis Krøyer may affect survival and growth of anadromous salmonids through physiological stress and/or behavioural changes. Using acoustic telemetry tracking, we investigated the behaviour ...
    • Timing is everything: Survival of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar postsmolts during events of high salmon lice densities 

      Bøhn, Thomas; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Serra-Llinares, Rosa Maria; Finstad, Bengt; Primicerio, Raul; Nilsen, Rune; Karlsen, Ørjan; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Skilbrei, Ove Tommy; Elvik, Kristine Marit Schrøder; Skaala, Øystein; Bjørn, Pål Arne (Journal article, 2020)
      1. Atlantic salmon in aquaculture act as reservoir hosts and vectors of parasites like salmon lice and this parasite is shown to harm wild salmonid populations. 2. In this study, n = 29,817 tagged Atlantic salmon were ...