Behaviour of stocked and naturally recruited European eels during migration

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 496, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-157

  Westerberg, Håkan ^a   Sjoberg, Niklas ^a,b   Lagenfelt, Ingvar ^c   Aarestrup, Kim ^d   Righton, David ^e  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Nature Conservation Section   (Sweden)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Eel management plan; Electronic tags; North Atlantic; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EEL; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; STOCKING DENSITY; TAGGING; TRANSLOCATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN CHANNEL; NORWEGIAN SEA; SARGASSO SEA; SKAGERRAK; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84893347717     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10646     Document Type: Article

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