Aquaculture Interactions: Shieldaig Field Station

Concerns regarding declining sea trout populations on the West Coast of Scotland in the late 1980s and early 1990s led Scottish Government to set up a long term monitoring programme on the River Shieldaig.


Publications

Pert, C. C., Fryer, R. J., Cook, P., Kilburn, R., McBeath, S., McBeath, A., Matejusova, I., Urquhart, K., Weir, S. J., Mccarthy, U., Collins, C., Amundrud, T. & Bricknell, I. R. (2014). Using sentinel cages to estimate infestation pressure on salmonids from sea lice in Loch Shieldaig, Scotland. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 5, 49-59.

Murray, A. G., Amundrud, T. L., Penston, M. J., Pert, C. C. & Middlemas, S. J. (2011). Abundance and distribution of larval sea lice in Scottish coastal waters. Salmon lice: An integrated Approach to Understanding Parasite Abundance and Distribution, 51-81.

Penston, M. J., McBeath, A. J. A. & Millar, C. P. (2011). Densities of planktonic Lepeophtheirus salmonis before and after an Atlantic salmon farm relocation. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 1, 225-232.

Middlemas, S.J., Raffell, J.A., Hay, D.W., Hatton-Ellis, M. & Armstrong, J.D. (2010). Temporal and spatial patterns of sea lice levels on sea trout in western Scotland in relation to fish farm production cycles. Biology Letters, 6, 548-551.

Amundrud, T. L. & Murray, A. G. (2009). Modelling sea lice dispersion under varying environmental forcing in a Scottish sea loch. Journal of Fish Diseases, 32, 27-44.

Middlemas, S.J., Stewart, D.C., Mackay, S. & Armstrong, J.D. (2009). Habitat use and dispersal of post‐smolt sea trout Salmo trutta in a Scottish sea loch system. Journal of Fish Biology, 74(3), 639-651.

Penston, M. J. & Davies, I. M. (2009). An assessment of salmon farms and wild salmonids as sources of Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kroyer) copepodids in the water column in Loch Torridon, Scotland. Journal of Fish Diseases, 32, 75-88.

Pert, C. C., Raffell, J., Urquhart, K., Weir, S. J., Kantola, K. M. H. & Bricknell, I. R. (2009). The pathogen burden of early returning sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) infected with Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kroyer, 1837), in the River Shieldaig, Scotland. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, 29, 210-216.

Penston, M. J., Millar, C. P. & Davies, I. M. (2008). Reduced Lepeophtheirus salmonis larval abundance in a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland between 2002 and 2006. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 81, 109-117.

Penston, M. J., Millar, C. P., Zuur, A. & Davies, I. M. (2008). Spatial and temporal distribution of Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kroyer) larvae in a sea loch containing Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., farms on the north-west coast of Scotland. Journal of Fish Diseases, 31, 361-371.

Hatton-Ellis, M., Hay, D.W., Walker, A.F. & Northcott, S.J. (2006). Sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis infestations of post-smolt sea trout in Loch Shieldaig, Wester Ross, 1999–2003. Sea trout: biology, conservation and management, 372-376.

Hay, D.W. & Hatton-Ellis, M. (2006). Stocking sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) in the river Shieldaig, Scotland. Sea trout: biology, conservation and management, 349-355.

McKibben, M. & Hay, D. W. (2004). Distributions of planktonic sea lice larvae Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the inter-tidal zone in Loch Torridon, Western Scotland in relation to salmon farm production cycles. Aquaculture Research, 35, 742-750.

Penston, M. J., McKibben, M. A., Hay, D. W. & Gillibrand, P. A. (2004). Observations on open-water densities of sea lice larvae in Loch Shieldaig, Western Scotland. Aquaculture Research, 35, 793-805.

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