{"id":25385,"date":"2024-01-04T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/?post_type=bc_project&p=25385"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:46:38","slug":"estimating-population-density-and-disease-transmission-in-salmon-farms","status":"publish","type":"bc_project","link":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/projects\/estimating-population-density-and-disease-transmission-in-salmon-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling population density and disease transmission in salmon farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We have developed models to estimate population density in salmon farms, and to predict how diseases spread among the fish. The models are also used to simulate various scenarios in order to examine how different control measures may alleviate the burden of diseases. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reported number of ISA cases until 2018 and simulated number of cases from 2019 under six different control strategies. <\/em>Figure: NR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Salmon farming is one of Norway’s largest export industries, and an important supplier of seafood globally. A significant contributor to the Norwegian economy, salmon farming provides jobs and stability for numerous coastal communities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reducing disease burden in salmon farming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The parasitic salmon louse and virus diseases such as Pancreas Disease (PD) and Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) threaten the sustainability of salmon farming. In collaboration with the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), we have developed models for the spread of lice and virus diseases. We have also used the models for scenario simulation (what-if analysis) to investigate the effect of measures for reducing the burden of these diseases. Such measures include vaccination, culling of infected fish stock and relocating fish farms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our models have been utilised in various projects for Norwegian authorities, aquaculture organisations, and private companies, both during and after the project period. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magne Aldrin<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Project: Host Density and pathogen transmission in salmon aquaculture: effects of increased production and pathogen control policies <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partner: Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funding: The Research Council of Norway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Period: 2016 – 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Further reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simulated effects of increasing salmonid production on sea lice populations in Norway<\/a> – ScienceDirect, 09.10.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realtime case study simulations of transmission of Pancreas Disease (PD) in Norwegian salmonid farming for disease control purpose – National Library of Medicine<\/a>, 25.09.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evaluating effects of different control strategies for Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) in marine salmonid <\/a>farming<\/a> by scenario simulation using a transmission model<\/a> – ScienceDirect, 16.04.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A partly structured model for the abundance of salmon lice in salmonid farms<\/a> – ScienceDirect, 18.08.2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25424,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25385","bc_project","type-bc_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_project\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bc_project"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_project\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33808,"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_project\/25385\/revisions\/33808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nr.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}