Age and fine-scale marine growth of Atlantic salmon post-smolts in the Northeast Atlantic

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1668-1677

  Jensen, Arne J ^a   Ó Maoiléidigh, Niall ^b   Thomas, Katie ^b   Einarsson, Sigurdur M ^c   Haugland, Monika ^d   Erkinaro, Jaakko ^e   Fiske, Peder ^a   Friedland, Kevin D ^f   Gudmundsdottir, Asta K ^c   Haantie, Jari ^e   Holm, Marianne ^d   Holst, Jens Christian ^d   Jacobsen, Jan Arge ^g   Jensås, Jan G ^a   Kuusela, Jorma ^e   Melle, Webjorn ^d   Mork, Kjell Arne ^d   Wennevik, Vidar ^d   Ostborg, Gunnel M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^c Institute of Freshwater Fisheries Reykjavik   (Iceland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^g FAROE MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; circuli spacings; digital scale reading; image processing; intercirculi distances; mortality; survival

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGE STRUCTURE; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; RIVER; SALMONID; SMOLT; SPACING; SURVIVAL; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84867533260     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss086     Document Type: Article

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