TY - JOUR
AU - Salama, N K G
AB - Journal of Fish Diseases 2016, 39, 1021–1025 doi:10.1111/jfd.12432 Short communication A descriptive analysis of Scottish farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., movements identifies a potential disease transmission risk from freshwater movements I S Wallace, L A Munro, A G Murray, A J Christie and N K G Salama Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK Keywords: anthropogenic disease transmission activities have been linked with the spread of risks, farmed Atlantic salmon, live fish pathogens (Murray, Smith & Stagg 2002; Taylor movements. et al. 2010). Multiple movements along specific pathways increase the risk of disease spread, how- ever, movements of live fish within and between Scottish fin fish aquaculture is important to the freshwater (FW) and marine water (MW) are inte- economy employing around 2 000 people, many gral to fish farming operations. Different patho- in remote and rural communities. It has been esti- gens may affect Atlantic salmon in these two mated that direct production from the Scottish environments, for example, Gyrodactylus salaris is aquaculture industry contributed £550 million to a FW parasite, while infectious salmon anaemia the economy (Alexander et al. 2014). In 2013, (ISA) is a MW disease. Infectious pancreatic 169 000 tonnes of farmed salmonids were 
TI - A descriptive analysis of Scottish farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., movements identifies a potential disease transmission risk from freshwater movements
JF - Journal of Fish Diseases
DO - 10.1111/jfd.12432
DA - 2016-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-descriptive-analysis-of-scottish-farmed-atlantic-salmon-salmo-salar-TIpO0k3Fed
SP - 1021
EP - 1025
VL - 39
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -