Proxy measures of fitness suggest coastal fish farms can act as population sources and not ecological traps for wild gadoid fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dempster, Tim ^a,b   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^c   Fernandez Jover, Damian ^c   Bayle Sempere, Just ^c   Nilsen, Rune ^d   Bjørn, Pal Arne ^d   Uglem, Ingebrigt ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d NOFIMA   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BODY SIZE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPARASITE; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PARASITE LOAD; PISCICULTURE; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SALMON; SPAWNING; TROPHIC LEVEL; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HEALTH SURVEY; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STANDARD;

GADIFORMES; GADUS MORHUA; POLLACHIUS VIRENS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79251542367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015646     Document Type: Article

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