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Organochlorine Fingerprinting to Determine Foraging Areas of Sea‐Ranched Atlantic Salmon: A Case Study from Denmark
Author(s) -
Svendsen Tore C.,
Vorkamp Katrin,
Svendsen Jon C.,
Aarestrup Kim,
Frier JensOle
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
north american journal of fisheries management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1548-8675
pISSN - 0275-5947
DOI - 10.1577/m08-196.1
Subject(s) - salmo , foraging , fishery , baltic sea , geography , population , biology , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , oceanography , demography , geology , sociology
We used organochlorine fingerprinting to identify the principal marine foraging area in a sea‐ranched population of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from Denmark. The results of this study, the first to apply the method to teleosts, suggest that Atlantic salmon released as juveniles (age 1) in the River Gudenaa, Denmark, are utilizing the North Sea and not the Baltic Sea as their principal marine foraging area.