Multiple determinants of welfare in farmed fish: Stocking density, disturbance, and aggression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 336-344

  Adams, C E ^a   Turnbull, J F ^b   Bell, A ^b   Bron, J E ^b   Huntingford, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SALMONID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCKING DENSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 34248149328     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-018     Document Type: Article

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