Estimating costs of sea lice control strategy in Norway

被引:90
作者
Liu, Yajie [1 ]
Bjelland, Hans vanhauwaer [1 ]
机构
[1] SINTEF Fisheries & Aquaculture Fiskeri & Havbruk, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway
关键词
Disease; Control strategy and cost; Profitability; Sea lice; Salmon aquaculture; SALMON SALMO-SALAR; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS-SALMONIS; ATLANTIC SALMON; WILD; AQUACULTURE; MODEL; L;
D O I
10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.08.018
中图分类号
S85 [动物医学(兽医学)];
学科分类号
0906 ;
摘要
This paper explores the costs of sea lice control strategies associated with salmon aquaculture at a farm level in Norway. Diseases can cause reduction in growth, low feed efficiency and market prices, increasing mortality rates, and expenditures on prevention and treatment measures. Aquaculture farms suffer the most direct and immediate economic losses from diseases. The goal of a control strategy is to minimize the total disease costs, including biological losses, and treatment costs while to maximize overall profit. Prevention and control strategies are required to eliminate or minimize the disease, while cost-effective disease control strategies at the fish farm level are designed to reduce the losses, and to enhance productivity and profitability. Thus, the goal can be achieved by integrating models of fish growth, sea lice dynamics and economic factors. A production function is first constructed to incorporate the effects of sea lice on production at a farm level, followed by a detailed cost analysis of several prevention and treatment strategies associated with sea lice in Norway. The results reveal that treatments are costly and treatment costs are very sensitive to treatment types used and timing of the treatment conducted. Applying treatment at an early growth stage is more economical than at a later stage. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:9
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