Acknowledgements
This work was funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Program for
Aquaculture Regulatory Research, granted to Cathryn Abbott and Terri
Sutherland (#PARR-2016-P-06). We thank Nathan Blasco, Kerra Shaw, and
Adrienne Paylor from DFO’s Aquaculture Management Division in Campbell
River, as well as Geoff Lowe, Kara Aschenbrenner, and Guang Kun Zhang
for their support and help with sample collection. We thank Kara
Aschenbrenner, Louise-Marie Roux, Aaron Schuler, and Angela Schulze for
their assistance in the laboratory. We are also grateful to Leslie
Harris for taxonomic identification of polychaete specimens she provided
via iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org).