Sea lice pose one of the greatest challenges to salmon aquaculture, causing skin lesions, stress, reduced growth, higher disease susceptibility, and mortality in farmed Atlantic salmon. In Norway and globally, infestations drive massive economic losses through treatment costs, lost biomass, downgraded fish quality, and stricter regulations to protect wild salmon stocks.

LiceDefence offers a new, proven preventive solution: an innovative trap-based system forming a dense grid barrier around pens. Specific light wavelengths and electromagnetic fields attract free-swimming copepodids before they enter, capturing them in traps where trace chlorine, generated safely from seawater via electrolysis, eliminates lice while preventing fouling. The localized chlorine dilutes harmlessly outside the trap, ensuring no impact on seawater quality.