Post-escape dispersal of juvenile Atlantic cod Gadus morhua from Norwegian fish farms and their potential for recapture

Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-116

  Serra Llinares, R M ^a,b   Nilsen, R ^a,b   Uglem, I ^c   Arechavala Lopez, P ^d   Bjorn P A ^a,b   Noble, C ^a  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Atlantic cod; Fish escape; Recapture; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875165904     PISSN: 1869215X     EISSN: 18697534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/aei00051     Document Type: Article

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