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Preliminary Announcement

Sealice of farmed salmon: towards an integrated pest management strategy

Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen 18-19 June 2001

A scientific conference, organised by the Scotland Section and Crop Protection Group of the SCI, about practical issues relating to integrated pest management strategies.

Local organisers: Drs Jennifer Mordue and Alan Pike

Summary Programme

Session 1 The science base of sealouse control. This session will summarise the current knowledge on medicines, potential vaccines, biological and semiochemical control as well as selective salmon breeding and the use of IPM in terrestrial systems.

Session 2. Epidemiology and Modelling of Sealouse populations. This session will cover monitoriing programmes and models for treatment of sealice.

Session 3. Management systems. This will include resistance management, strategic treatments, regulatory practices and discharge consents, ISO guidelines and wild fisheries and sealouse control.

The proceedings will be published in a dedicated issue of Pest Management Science and will include relevant poster presentations as well as the invited oral presentations.

The full programme and booking papers will be available shortly. If you wish to enquire about the conference please contact us via e-mail: a.j.mordue@abdn.ac.uk or a.pike@abdn.ac.uk.