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The effect of AcuLice treatment on salmon lice dynamics was measured by weekly salmon lice counting at a full-scale production facility from mid-summer 2019 to late-spring 2024. We monitored four production cycles, with AcuLice applied for two of the production cycles and with no AcuLice treatment applied during the other two production cycles as control. This is a follow-up study to our previous work. The numbers of salmon lice treatments and of weeks until the first salmon lice treatment were also compared in the two experimental groups. For the small (sessile and mobile stages) salmon lice, a significantly lower number (mean \u00b1 SEM) was shown for the AcuLice group (0.73 \u00b1 0.03) compared with the control group (1.18 \u00b1 0.05). For the mature female salmon lice, a significantly lower number (mean \u00b1 SEM) was found for the AcuLice group (0.12 \u00b1 0.01) compared with the control group (0.22 \u00b1 0.03). In addition, the mean (\u00b1SEM) number of C. elongatus varied between the two experimental groups and was higher in the control group (0.12 \u00b1 0.01) compared with the AcuLice group (0.03 \u00b1 0.01). In addition, a lower number (mean \u00b1 SEM) of salmon lice treatments (1.4 \u00b1 0.17 vs. 4.22 \u00b1 0.20) and a longer production period before the first salmon lice treatment occurred was observed for the AcuLice group (11.2 \u00b1 0.1 weeks) compared with the control group (24.1 \u00b1 2.3 weeks). These data suggest that the use of the AcuLice system significantly reduces the number of salmon lice (by 40\u201360%) and C. elongatus (by 70%) on farmed Atlantic salmon and reduces the need for traditional salmon lice treatments (by 65%).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jmse13010104","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,8]],"date-time":"2025-01-08T04:54:08Z","timestamp":1736312048000},"page":"104","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Follow-Up Study on Acoustic De-Licing of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus elongatus Dynamics over Four Consecutive Production Cycles"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0077-8077","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Albert Kjartan Dagbjartarson","family":"Imsland","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Akvaplan-niva Iceland Office, Akralind 6, 201 K\u00f3pavogur, Iceland"},{"name":"High Technology Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9365-6775","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pablo","family":"Balseiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High Technology Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway"}]},{"given":"Sigurd","family":"Handeland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High Technology Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8826-8068","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olav Rune","family":"God\u00f8","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Husgod Holding AS, Skiparviklia 11, 5221 Nesttun, Norway"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"171","DOI":"10.1111\/jfd.12061","article-title":"Salmon lice\u2014Impact on wild salmonids and salmon aquaculture","volume":"36","author":"Torrissen","year":"2013","journal-title":"J. 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