Effects of organic effluents from a salmon farm on a fjord system. I. Vertical export and dispersal processes

Aquaculture

Volumn 262, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Kutti, Tina ^a   Ervik, Arne ^a   Hansen, Pia Kupka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Organic waste; Salmon farming; Sedimentation rates

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FJORD; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SALMONID CULTURE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33846585030     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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