Social foraging behaviour of juvenile coho...and the rewards of mentoring
Our paper on social foraging behaviour in juvenile coho salmon was just published after one of the longest efforts I've put in to date,...
"Perfect storm" lead to sea louse outbreak in 2015
Researchers at the Salmon Coast Field Station, lead by Alexandra Morton, have been monitoring juvenile salmon for sea lice since 2001. ...
Coupled populations subject to control (and what we can learn from pure theory)
Some ecologists, and indeed scientists, evaluate models models based on their ability to predict data. I will not dispute that a strong...
Parasite-mediated food web dynamics
The ways that parasites affect host ecological interactions can influence the net impact of parasties on host survival. This is...
Correction to predator-host-parasite model
Last winter, I was analyzing my experiments on parasite-mediated predation in juvenile Pacific salmon and was revisiting a model that we...
That's a rap!
Last winter, NSERC had a competition they called "Science, Action!" aimed at getting researchers to talk about their work publicly. The...
Farmed salmon still a risk
Cermaq Canada posted a story on May 12, 2015 titled "Healthy farmed salmon pose no real risk to passing wild salmon, says top BC fish...
Fish in troubled waters
Scientists in BC have been studying the effects of sea lice on wild salmon for a long time. So what have we learned? In a recent article...
Parasite-mediated predation
There has been a lot of interest in the effect of sea louse parasites on wild salmon in the Broughton Archipelago. Counts of salmon...
Salmon and sea lice in BC
Sea lice (Lepeoptheirus salmonis) are a parasitic copepod that feed on the skin and blood of salmonids, causing mechanical damage (Pike &...
