Dr. Bengt Finstad is a Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Tungasletta, Norway. His research interests include environmental physiology, smolt production and releases of fish, pollution and acidification, biotelemetry, aquaculture and sea ranching, salmonids in the ocean, and fish diseases and parasites. Dr. Finstad studies the interaction between aquaculture and wild salmonid fish, and is developing a risk factor model to estimate the impact of sea lice infestation from fish farms on native stocks. He has conducted further studies on the migratory behaviour of fish species using telemetry, produced smolts for enhancement purposes, and studied the impact of pollution and acidification on wild fish stocks. Dr. Finstad has published 51 papers in international scientific journals.