The major threats to Atlantic salmon in Norway

Numbers of farmed salmon escaping to the wild are large relative to the abundance of their wild conspecifics. Escaped farmed salmon are clearly an international issue, with

PCoA plot of pairwise FST estimates between historical samples from 39 Atlantic salmon populations and 13 farmed strains populations (diamonds), clustered into one farmed

Positive genetic correlation between resistance to bacterial (furunculosis) and viral (infectious salmon anaemia) diseases in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo

The species Atlantic salmon dominates the global salmon market, but its two largest producers, Norway and Chile also farm in sea pens significant quantities

Sale of farmed cleaning fish to producers of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout .... Percentage of farmed and wild cleaning fish in the cages with Atlantic salmon and

(1999) Microsatellite genetic variation between and within farmed and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations.. &

3 Investigation of new statistical methods for identifying the origin for farmed escaped salmon and detecting offspring of farmed salmon in wild populations In this study,

In Norway, which has management responsibility for a significant proportion of the remaining wild salmon populations, not to mention a multibillion- euro