Water Circulation and Management of Infectious Salmon Anemia in the Salmon Aquaculture Industry of Cobscook Bay, Maine and Adjacent Southwestern New Brunswick

Résumé du livre

Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) was first detected in salmon farms of southwestern New Brunswick in 1996 and in adjacent Cobscook Bay, Maine in 2001. There was speculation that the virus may have been transmitted through the water between farms in the two jurisdictions. In an effort to help estimate the potential for water exchange of the ISA virus between farms in Cobscook Bay and adjacent areas of southwestern New Brunswick, a three-dimensional tidal water circulation and particle transport model was used. Water exchange scenarios based on the movement of particles during one tidal excursion, as predicted by the model, are compared to those estimated by a simple method assuming a 5-km radius circular zone of water exchange around each farm