Survival and behaviour of European silver eel in late freshwater and early marine phase during spring migration

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 435-440

  Aarestrup, Kim ^a   Thorstad, E B ^b   Koed, A ^a   Jepsen, N ^c   Svendsen, J C ^a   Pedersen, M I ^a   Skov, C ^a   Okland F ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Behaviour; Spring migration; Survival; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EEL; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

AARHUS [DENMARK]; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; GUDENA RIVER; NORTHERN EUROPE; RANDERS FJORD; SCANDINAVIA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 54949140706     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2008.00639.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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