Reproductive Disturbances in Baltic Fish: A synopsis of the FiRe project

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 2-8

  Bengtsson, Bengt Erik ^a   Hill, Cathy ^b   Bergman, Åke ^a   Brandt, Ingvar ^c   Johansson, Nils ^d   Magnhagen, Carin ^e   Södergen, Anders ^f   Thulin, Jan ^g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Swedish Salmon Research Institute   (Sweden)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTION; SALMONID CULTURE;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0033030876     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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84. Acknowledgements. Thanks to all the scientists involved in the Swedish FiRe project and the Nordic Redfish project, for their dedication to the task of improving knowledge on reproductive disturbances in Baltic fish, despite the administrative hurdles. We would also like to thank our North American colleagues for their generous exchange of information on Early Mortality Syndrome in Great Lakes salmonids. We appreciate the scientific and diplomatic skills of Sture Nellbring, who is co-editor of this volume of Ambio. Lastly, we would like to thank the six sponsors of the FiRe and Redfish research programmes.