Dr. Knut Wiik Vollset, a Postdoctoral Fellow from Uni Research Environment, Bergen Norway, will be giving a seminar on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 1:30 pm in AVC Room 286B/C entitled: 

 

"Disentangling the role of ​salmon lice on the marine survival of Atlantic Salmon:  A Norwegian perspective".

The effects of salmon lice on the recruitment survival of salmon is widely debated and has huge economic and political ramification through its limitations on the further development of the salmon aquaculture industry, and the impacts on conservation and harvestable surplus of salmon. In Norway, this conflict of interest has reached an important crossroad as the Norwegian state has limited the increase of biomass and new license for production of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout in Norway. Recently the Norwegian government suggested a new regulation frame work, where regulation of salmon lice levels and biomass in fish farms should be more directly linked to impacts on wild fish. Some key scientific studies on the effect of salmon lice on marine survival of Atlantic salmon and the ongoing NFR project BaseLice will be presented. A recently held workshop which aimed at scrutinizing the new regulation frame work will also be discussed.

Everyone welcome.