Reproductive failure in Baltic Sea trout (Salmo trutta) compared with the M74 syndrome in Baltic salmon (Salmo salar)

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-91

  Landergren, Peter ^a   Vallin, Lars ^a   Westin, Lars ^a   Amcoff, Patric ^b   Börjeson, Hans ^c   Ragnarsson, Bjarne ^d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Salmon Research Institute   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SALMONID CULTURE;

BALTIC SEA;

SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 0032996804     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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34. Acknowledgements. Financial support has been given by Carl Trygger Foundation together with the Redfish project, Nordic Council of Ministers. Special thanks to Annette Pettersson for the analyses of astaxanthin and assoc. professor Torbjörn Järvi for data concerning gonado-somatic index of salmon and sea trout from Dalälven and the refeeres for improving the manuscript. Special thanks to Göran Nennefors, Långhult Hatchery, for the mortality data from River Åva, Annette Pettersson for the analyzes of astaxanthin, and Ass. Prof. Torbjörn Järvi for the data concerning gonado-somatic index of salmon and sea trout from Dalälven, and the refeeres for improving the manuscript.