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Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming

Ben Whittaker, Sofia Consuegra del Olmo Orcid Logo, Carlos Garcia De Leaniz Orcid Logo

Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume: 243, Start page: 105459

Swansea University Authors: Ben Whittaker, Sofia Consuegra del Olmo Orcid Logo, Carlos Garcia De Leaniz Orcid Logo

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Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) are increasingly being used as cleaner fish to control parasitic sea-lice in salmon farming, but cleaning rates are very variable and not all individuals eat sea-lice, which increases the risk of emaciation and has ethical and practical implications. Selecting good clea...

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title Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
spellingShingle Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
Ben Whittaker
Sofia Consuegra del Olmo
Carlos Garcia De Leaniz
title_short Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
title_full Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
title_fullStr Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
title_full_unstemmed Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
title_sort Personality profiling may help select better cleaner fish for sea-lice control in salmon farming
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description Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) are increasingly being used as cleaner fish to control parasitic sea-lice in salmon farming, but cleaning rates are very variable and not all individuals eat sea-lice, which increases the risk of emaciation and has ethical and practical implications. Selecting good cleaners is a priority to make the industry more sustainable, but there is little information on what behaviours make cleaner fish effective under a commercial setting. We examined variation in lumpfish personalities according to the five-factor personality model that takes into account differences in activity, anxiety (shelter use, thigmotaxis), aggression, sociality, and boldness (neophobia). We then quantified how variation in lumpfish personalities influenced interactions with naïve Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), without the confounding effects of variation in sea-lice loads. Variation in activity, sociality, aggression and neophobia, but not in anxiety, was repeatable. Neophilic, non-aggressive lumpfish spent more time inspecting salmon than neophobic and aggressive individuals, but salmon fled in the presence of the most active and social individuals, suggesting there may be an optimal cleaner fish personality amenable to artificial selection. The personality screening protocols developed in this study could inform a more efficient use of cleaner fish in salmon farming and reduce the number of individuals required to control sea-lice.
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