High connectivity of salmon farms revealed by aggregation, residence and repeated movements of wild fish among farms

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 384, Issue , 2009, Pages 251-260

  Uglem, Ingebrigt ^a   Dempster, Tim ^b,c   Bjørn, Pål Arne ^d   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^e   Økland, Finn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NOFIMA   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Aquaculture; Movement; Pollachius virens; Sea cage; Tagging; Tracking

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CAGE CULTURE; CONNECTIVITY; MOVEMENT; SALMONID CULTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

POLLACHIUS VIRENS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 67650524586     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08001     Document Type: Article

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