The major threats to Atlantic salmon in Norway

T Forseth, BT Barlaup, B Finstad, P Fiske… - ICES Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is an economically and culturally important species. Norway
has more than 400 watercourses with Atlantic salmon and supports a large proportion of the …

Use of lumpfish for sea‐lice control in salmon farming: challenges and opportunities

A Powell, JW Treasurer, CL Pooley… - Reviews in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient sea‐lice control remains one of the most important challenges for the salmon
farming industry. The use of wrasse (Labridae) as cleaner fish offers an alternative to …

The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics

JC Teixeira, CD Huber - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
The current rate of species extinction is rapidly approaching unprecedented highs, and life
on Earth presently faces a sixth mass extinction event driven by anthropogenic activity …

Atlantic salmon in a rapidly changing environment—Facing the challenges of reduced marine survival and climate change

EB Thorstad, D Bliss, C Breau… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic salmon populations have declined in recent decades. Many of the threats to the
species during its freshwater and coastal residency periods are known, and management …

Risk assessment of the environmental impact of Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming

GL Taranger, Ø Karlsen, RJ Bannister… - ICES Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Norwegian aquaculture has grown from its pioneering days in the 1970s to be a major
industry. It is primarily based on culturing Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout and has the …

A critical life stage of the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar: behaviour and survival during the smolt and initial post‐smolt migration

EB Thorstad, F Whoriskey, I Uglem… - Journal of fish …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The anadromous life cycle of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar involves long migrations to novel
environments and challenging physiological transformations when moving between salt …

Half a century of genetic interaction between farmed and wild Atlantic salmon: Status of knowledge and unanswered questions

KA Glover, MF Solberg, P McGinnity, K Hindar… - Fish and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is one of the best researched fishes, and its aquaculture plays
a global role in the blue revolution. However, since the 1970s, tens of millions of farmed …

Control of puberty in farmed fish

GL Taranger, M Carrillo, RW Schulz, P Fontaine… - General and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Puberty comprises the transition from an immature juvenile to a mature adult state of the
reproductive system, ie the individual becomes capable of reproducing sexually for the first …

Maturation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae): a synthesis of ecological, genetic, and molecular processes

KB Mobley, T Aykanat, Y Czorlich, A House… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae) has emerged as a model
system for sexual maturation research, owing to the high diversity of life history strategies …

Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon

LG Crozier, AP Hendry, PW Lawson… - Evolutionary …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Salmon life histories are finely tuned to local environmental conditions, which are intimately
linked to climate. We summarize the likely impacts of climate change on the physical …