Assessing the impact of hydropower and fisheries on downstream migrating silver eel, Anguilla anguilla, by telemetry in the River Meuse

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-228

  Winter, H V ^a   Jansen, H M ^a   Bruijs, M C M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KEMA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fisheries; Hydropower; Individual behaviour; Migration; Population effects; Radio telemetry; Silver eel

Indexed keywords

EEL; FISHERY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEUSE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 33744818498     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2006.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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