Independent Science

Coast Alliance for Aquaculture Reform's Summary of Peer-Reviewed Science on Ecological and Health Impact of Open Net-Cage Salmon Aquaculture (updated June 2009)

Not All Salmon Are Created Equal: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Global Salmon Farming Systems
Pelletier, Nathan et al (2009)
Environmental Science and Technology

Feeding aquaculture in an era of finite resources
Naylor, R et al (2009)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

How sea lice from salmon farms may cause wild salmonid declines in Europe and North America and be a threat to fishes elsewhere 
Costello, M (July 2009)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences

Sea lice and salmon population dynamics: effects of exposure time for migratory fish (abstract)
Krkošek M, Morton A, Volpe JP, Lewis MA (May 2009)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences

Sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, transfer between wild sympatric adult and juvenile salmon on the north coast of British Columbia, Canada
Gottesfeld, A.S., Proctor, B., Rolston, L.D., Carr-Harris, C. 
Journal of Fish Diseases

Sea Lice Escape Predation on their Host
Connors B. M., Krkošek M., Dill L. M. (2008)
Biology Letters

Sea Louse Infestation in Wild Juvenile Salmon and Pacific Herring Associated with Fish Farms off the East-Central Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Morton, R. D. Routledge, M. Krkosek (2008)
North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Salmon Farms Destroying Wild Salmon: Study
Jennifer S. Ford, Ransom A. Myers (2008)
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon
Martin Krkosek, Jennifer S. Ford, Alexandra Morton, Subhash Lele, Ransom A. Myers, Mark A. Lewis (2007)
Science Magazine: American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS)

A proposed life history strategy for the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) in the subarctic Pacific
Dill, L.M., Losos, C.J.C., Connors, B.M., and Mages, P. 2009. Comment on Beamish (2007)
Aquaculture 286

Estimated Sea Louse Egg Production from Marine Harvest Canada Farmed Atlantic Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia 2003-2004
Craig Orr (2007)
North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:187-197

Epizootics of wild fish induced by farmed fish
Krkosek, M., M.A. Lewis, A. Morton, L.N. Frazer and J.P. Volpe. (2006)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 103:15506-15510

Temporal patterns of sea louse infestation on wild Pacific salmon in relation to the fallowing of Atlantic salmon farms
Morton, A., R. D. Routledge and R. Williams. (2005b)
North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:811- 821

Mortality rates for Juvenile Pink Oncorhynchus gorbushca and Chum O. keta salmon infested with Sea Lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the Broughton Archipelago
Morton, A. and R. D. Routledge (2005a)
The Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin. 11(2): 146-152

Speaking for the Salmon: A Community Workshop to Review Preliminary Results of 2003 Studies on Sea Lice and Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago Area of British Columbia
Gallaugher, P., J. Penikett, and M. Berry (2004a)
Simon Fraser University, Inner Coast Natural Resource Centre, Alert Bay, B.C.

Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infection rates on juvenile pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and chum (Oncorhynchus keta) salmon in the nearshore marine environment of British Columbia, Canada
Morton, A., R. Routledge, C. Peet and A. Ladwig. (2004)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science