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Peter Sykes

Phone: 
(902) 566-0995
Fax: 
(902) 566-0823
Email: 
psykes@upei.ca

Supervisor: Dr. L. Hammell 

Thesis Title: Health and Productivity Monitoring in Cage Cultured Atlantic Halibut

Description of Project: Through the Center for Aquatic Health Sciences, Peter's project looks into the impact of oil adjuvenated vaccines and unique individual fish characteristics and how they effect the growth and survival of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) during cage culture grow out. This project involves a population of 5000 individually passive integrated transponder tagged Atlantic halibut at a commercial farm in The Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.

 

Position: 
PhD Candidate
Education: 
BSc. Biology, Minor in Economics; University of New Brunswick