date:May 29, 2014
overed by a tarpaulin or plankton cloth, securing a lice-free water passage through which the salmon can swim up to the surface to gulp some air.
Frode Oppedal (IMR) has headed the project as part of SFI CREATE in Aquaculture Technology, a centre for research-based innovation under the Research Council of Norway, hosted by SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture.
This method is extremely promising. It is a preventive, non-chemical approach adapted to the natural behaviour of the salmon and may be sui