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The Cost of Lice: Quantifying the Impacts of Parasitic Sea Lice on Farmed Salmon

Jay Abolofia, J. Wilen, F. Asche

2017.4.21Marine Resource Economics

DOI: 10.1086/691981

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This empirically investigate the biological and economic impacts of observed levels of infective lice in Norwegian salmon farms over an 84-month period, estimating that lice parasitism produced US$436m in damages to the Norwegian industry in 2011.

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ABOLOFIA, Jay; WILEN, J.; ASCHE, F. The cost of lice: Quantifying the impacts of parasitic sea lice on farmed salmon. Marine Resource Economics, 2017, 32: 329–349.