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Photo Gallery
Wahpeeto Creek 2004
Sea Lice
Photo by Rob Almond. These adult salmon migrated out to sea as fry in the spring of 2003 when many of the salmon farms were empty due to IHN infection or the provincial fallow. Sea lice infestation was lower than previous years and, as these pictures show, adult returns were correspondingly higher.
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Wahpeeto Creek 2004
Sea Lice
Photo by Rob Almond. When compared to 2003, a much greater number of adult pink salmon returned to Wahpeeto Creek in 2004.
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Wahpeeto Creek 2003
Sea Lice
Photo by Rob Almond. Wahpeeto Creek, 2003. Young fry from this generation migrated through the Broughton Archipelago--and past many stocked salmon farms--in the spring of 2002. Sea lice infestation on the migrating juveniles was very high.
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Wahpeeto Creek 2003
Sea Lice
Photo by Rob Almond. Empty gravel in Wahpeeto Creek (a tributary of the Wakeman River in the Broughton Archipelago) 2003. This creek should be full of adult pink salmon ready to spawn at the time this picture was taken.
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Two Species of Sea Lice on Pink Salmon
Sea Lice
Lepeotheirus salmonis (large louse on left) and Caligus clemensi (small lice on right) on juvenile pink salmon
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seining
Sea Lice
photo: Katrina Assonitis
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seining
Sea Lice
photo: Katrina Assonitis
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Sea Louse with Eggs
Sea Lice
Photo by Craig Orr, Watershed Watch
Lepeophtheirus salmonis female with egg strings
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sea louse on juvenile
Sea Lice
photo: Craig Losos
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