Assessment of population size and migration routes of silver eel in the River Rhine based on a 2-year combined mark-recapture and telemetry study

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1450-1456

  Breteler, Jan Klein ^a   Vriese, Tim ^b   Borcherding, Jost ^c   Breukelaar, André ^d   Jörgensen, Lothar ^e   Staas, Stefan ^f   De Laak, Gerard ^g   Ingendahl, Detlev ^h  

^a VIVION BV   (Netherlands)

^b Visadvies BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Rijksinstituut Voor Integraal Zoetwaterbeheer en Afvalwaterbehandeling   (Netherlands)

^e Struktur und Genehmigungsbehörde Nord Rheinland Pfalz ^*  (Germany)

^f Rheinfischereigenossenschaft im Lande Nordrhein Westfalen   (Germany)

^g Sportvisserij Nederland   (Netherlands)

^h Bezirksregierung Arnsberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Eel; Mark recapture; Migration; Population size; Rhine; Silver eel; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EEL; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; RIVER WATER; SPAWNING; TELEMETRY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; HARINGVLIET; IJSSELMEER; NETHERLANDS; NIEUWE WATERWEG; RHINE RIVER; SOUTH HOLLAND; WAAL RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 35948939623     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsm130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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