Reduced growth costs the most

Cecilie Sviland Walde is a trained fish health biologist and has worked for many years with disease diagnostics of farmed fish. She has a doctorate in the fields of epidemiology and economics, where she has looked at the costs of delousing farmed Atlantic salmon. Today, she works in the field of animal health economics in the section for aquatic biosecurity at the Veterinary Institute.

Biological and economic costs

Walde tells Fish Farming Expert's Norwegian sister site, Kyst.no, that the biological costs are defined as increased mortality, reduced growth and reduced harvest quality.