Confidence in assessing the effectiveness of bath treatments for the control of sea lice on Norwegian salmon farms
Jimenez, Daniel F. and Heuch, Peter A and Revie, Crawford and Gettinby, George (2012) Confidence in assessing the effectiveness of bath treatments for the control of sea lice on Norwegian salmon farms. Aquaculture, 334-349. pp. 58-65. ISSN 0044-8486 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2012.03.029)
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Abstract
The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is the most important ectoparasite of farmed salmonids in the Northern hemisphere, having a major economic and ecological impact on the sustainability of this sector of the aquaculture industry. To a large extent, control of L. salmonis relies on the use of topical delousing chemical treatments in the form of baths. Improvements in methods for the administration and assessment of bathtreatments have not kept pace with the rapid modernization and intensification of the salmon industry. Bathtreatments present technical and biological challenges, including best practice methods for the estimation of the effect of licetreatment interventions. In this communication, we compare and contrast methods to calculate and interpret treatmenteffectiveness at pen and site level. The methods are illustrated for the calculation of the percentage reduction in mean abundance of mobile lice with a measure of confidence. Six different methods for the calculation of confidence intervals across different probability levels were compared. We found the quasi-Poisson method with a 90% confidence interval to be informative and robust for the measurement of bathtreatment performance.
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Item type: Article ID code: 39821 Dates: DateEventMay 2012PublishedSubjects: Science > Mathematics > Probabilities. Mathematical statistics Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
Faculty of Science > Mathematics and StatisticsDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 29 May 2012 09:32 Last modified: 16 Jul 2024 01:05 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/39821