Aquaculture Glossary

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Biomass in an aquaculture context refers to the total weight of living fish at a farm site, usually measured in tonnes.

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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is the most important farmed species in Norway, accounting for over 90% of Norwegian aquaculture production.

Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) is a parasitic copepod that lives on salmonid fish.

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Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is the second most important farmed species in Norway.

Cleaner fish is a collective term for fish used as biological delousing agents in salmon farming, primarily ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) and lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus).

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Smolt is the term for young salmon or trout that has undergone smoltification, a physiological adaptation process that enables the fish to live in seawater.

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Biomass

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Atlantic Salmon

Sea Lice

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Rainbow Trout

Cleaner Fish

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Smolt