Cleaner Fish Biology and Aquaculture Applications

Dr Jim Treasurer, Aquaculture and Fisheries scientist, of FAI Farms. Jim was Divisional Health Manager with Marine Harvest from 1989, then Aquaculture research manager UK for Seafish, and later Research director of VFF Ardtoe Marine Laboratory. His development and research activities in sustainable aquaculture include Integrated Pest Management of sea lice including biological control, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture, alternative fish feeds, rearing of novel species to aquaculture such as cod and haddock and cleaner fish, fish reproduction and fish welfare.

• I: Biology and rearing of wrasse and lumpfish 1: An introduction to sea lice and the rise of cleaner fish 2: The Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) reproductive physiology, broodstock management and spawning behaviour 3: Rearing of Ballan wrasse 4: Improving the use of wrasse (Labridae) stocked in commercial sea cages with Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) for sea lice control: Key features for a successful deployment 5: Annual reproductive cycle and egg production in wild-caught wrasse goldsinny Ctenolabrus rupestris and rock cook Centrolabrus exoletus, and realised egg collection and rearing of goldsinny wrasse 6: Review of lumpfish biology 7: Hatchery management of lumpfish 8: Egg collection by hand-stripping and natural spawning in lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus broodstock 9: Lumpfish deployment on salmon farms II: Advances in cleaner fish science (thematic) 10: Cleaner fish species nutrition and feeding practices 11: Population genetics of wild wrasse species of interest to the aquaculture sector 12: Lumpfish biology and population genetics 13: Cleaner fish health 14: Immunology and vaccinology of lumpfish and wrasse 15: Cleaner fish welfare 16: Transport of lumpfish and wrasse 17: Fisheries for cleaner fish species in Europe III: Cleaner fish developments in countries 18: Cleaner fish application in Norway 19: Cleaner fish rearing and deployment in the UK 20: Cleaner fish use in Ireland 21: Rearing of cleaner fish in Iceland 22: Rearing, farm application, and behaviour of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) in the Faroes 23: Cunner and lumpfish as cleaner fish species in Canada 24: The Patagonian blenny (Eleginops maclovinus): a Chilean native fish with potential to control sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) infestations in salmonids IV: Cleaner fish - the future 25: Cleaner fish in aquaculture review and looking to the future