A team from the NAFC Marine Centre’s Marine Science and Technology department has just returned from a fact finding mission to Norway where some salmon farming companies are using Ballan wrasse as ‘cleaner fish’ to control sea lice levels on salmon farms in a natural and sustainable way.
Head of Marine Science and Technology, Dr Martin Robinson, aquaculture development manager, Kenny Gifford, and aquaculture scientist and technician, Gregg Arthur, were very impressed to see cleaner fish in action and to hear how some large Norwegian salmon farms, by using a mixture of wrasse species as cleaner fish, don’t require any chemical treatments for delousing.
