Predicting the abundance of Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The primary objective was to construct a time series model for the abundance of the adult female (AF) sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis in Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar farms in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada, for the period 2016-2021 and to illustrate its short-term predictive capabilities.

Methods

Sea lice are routinely counted for monitoring purposes, and these data are recorded in the Fish-iTrends database. A multivariable autoregressive linear mixed-effects model (second-order autoregressive structure) was generated with the outcome of the abundance of AF sea lice and included treatments, infestation pressures (a measure that represents the dose of exposure of sea louse parasitic stages to potential fish hosts) within sites (internal) and among sites (ex

SUBMITTER: Parent MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11685058 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature