Farming with fewer pesticides: EU pesticide review and resulting challenges for UK agriculture

Hillocks, R. J.

doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2011.08.008

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“…Many other sea louse management strategies exist, such as: in-feed chemicals, which have a longer efficacy time; selective breeding for sea louse resistant salmon [38]; integrated pest management approaches such as coordinated regional management; use of mechanical methods such as cleaner fish predators or lasers [3,39,40]; and maintenance of wild salmonid populations to act as 'chemical refugia' for sea lice [9,18]. We would like to incorporate these other chemical and nonchemical options into the model to investigate how they can be used together for greatest effect.…”

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“…with more than one chemical, are the most efficient in removing pests while having relatively slower evolution of resistance [3,5,6]. Combination treatments typically have a high DTH relative to other approaches where chemicals may be rotated over time, or applied in spatial mosaics [5].…”

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“…Strategies for reducing the evolution of pesticide resistance in terrestrial systems involve changing patterns of chemical applications in both time and space [3][4][5]. The goal of these strategies is to increase the degree of treatment heterogeneity (DTH).…”

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“…For example, pesticide resistance is a well-known issue in terrestrial environments, where in North America more than 250 species of terrestrial arthropods are resistant to at least one chemical pesticide [1]. The decreased ability to control pests and pathogens has economic, environmental, public health and food security challenges [2][3][4]. Recognizing the scale of this problem, recent papers have called for more investigation into strategies that simultaneously manage pests and pathogens and their evolutionary trajectories [4,5].…”

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Managing aquatic parasites for reduced drug resistance: lessons from the land

McEwan

Groner²,

Burnett

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J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Atlantic salmon farming is one of the largest aquaculture industries in the world. A major problem in salmon farms is the sea louse ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis, which can cause stress, secondary infection and sometimes mortality in the salmon host. Sea lice have substantial impacts on farm economics and potentially nearby wild salmonid populations. The most common method of controlling sea louse infestations is application of chemicals. However, most farming regions worldwide have observed resistance to the small set of treatment chemicals that are available. Despite this, there has been little investigation of treatment strategies for managing resistance in aquaculture. In this article, we compare four archetypical treatment strategies inspired by agriculture, where the topic has a rich history of study, and add a fifth strategy common in aquaculture. We use an agentbased model (ABM) to simulate these strategies and their varying applications of chemicals over time and space. We analyse the ABM output to compare how the strategies perform in controlling louse abundance, number of treatments required and levels of resistance in the sea louse population. Our results indicated that among the approaches considered applying chemicals in combination was the most effective over the long term.

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Managing aquatic parasites for reduced drug resistance: lessons from the land

McEwan

Groner²,

Burnett

et al. 2016

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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“…However, pesticide use is increasingly regarded as problematical for two key reasons: the potential impacts of pesticide application on health (Bassil et al, 2007) and the environment (Stanley et al, 2015), and the ongoing evolution of pesticide resistance. Furthermore, strict European regulation is leading to a reduction in the number and diversity of pesticides available to farmers (Hillocks, 2012). Thus, the situation arises where production must increase without relying heavily on the use of pesticides.…”

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