Search results for "Salmo trutta"
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The relationship between stocking eggs in boreal spawning rivers and the abundance of brown trout parr
2015
Abstract Stocking with eggs has been widely used as a management measure to support degraded salmonid stocks. In Finland, Atlantic salmon and both sea-migrating and lake-migrating brown trout are stocked as eggs, alevins, fry, parr, and smolt, whereas trout are also stocked as mature fish. The aim of this stocking is to improve catches and to support collapsed spawning stocks. We assessed the success of stocking with brown trout eggs in a study of 17 Finnish boreal forest rivers, of which 9 were subject to egg stocking. All rivers contained some naturally spawning trout. In 16 rivers, including non-stocking years and unstocked rivers, egg stocking did not increase the total (wild and stocke…
Muhos- ja Sanginjoki lohikalojen elinympäristöinä
2006
Genetic divergence between morphological forms of brown troutSalmo truttaL. in the Balkan region of Macedonia
2010
The objective of this study was to characterize the genetic structure of two Balkan brown trout morphotypes, Salmo macedonicus and Salmo pelagonicus, and to test whether molecular traits support the species’ status proposed by traditional morphological identification. The mitochondrial DNA 12S-rDNA, cyt b and control region genes were sequenced in 15 specimens collected from three localities in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The results of these markers did not support the taxonomic category of species but confirmed the existence of two morphotypes, Salmo trutta macedonicus and Salmo trutta pelagonicus, in the Aegean–Adriatic lineages of the Salmo trutta species complex.
The role of salmonid fishes in conservation of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera)
2016
The abundance of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) has declined widely during the past century, and new conservation initiatives are needed. This thesis focused on the relationship between M. margaritifera and its salmonid host required for reproduction of this species. First, by exposing fish experimentally to glochidium larvae of M. margaritifera, different M. margaritifera populations were shown to demonstrate strong differences in their ability to parasitize different salmonid species. Atlantic salmon was clearly a better host for mussels in large river channels, whereas in small headwater tributaries brown trout was the best, or the only suitable, host. These findi…
Original data for manuscript: Quantity and Quality of Aquaculture Enrichments Influence Disease Epidemics and Provide Ecological Alternatives to Anti…
2021
The data processed and analyzed in this study are given in a single file: Karvonen et al. exposure data.xlsx. For detailed description of the material, methods and results of the study, see the article.
Quantity and Quality of Aquaculture Enrichments Influence Disease Epidemics and Provide Ecological Alternatives to Antibiotics
2021
Environmental heterogeneity is a central component influencing the virulence and epidemiology of infectious diseases. The number and distribution of susceptible hosts determines disease transmission opportunities, shifting the epidemiological threshold between the spread and fadeout of a disease. Similarly, the presence and diversity of other hosts, pathogens and environmental microbes, may inhibit or accelerate an epidemic. This has important applied implications in farming environments, where high numbers of susceptible hosts are maintained in conditions of minimal environmental heterogeneity. We investigated how the quantity and quality of aquaculture enrichments (few vs. many stones
Probabilistic maturation reaction norms assessed from mark-recaptures of wild fish in their natural habitat
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Ecology and Evolution. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1044 Open Access Reaction norms are a valuable tool in evolutionary biology. Lately, the probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach, describing probabilities of maturing at combinations of age and body size, has been much applied for testing whether phenotypic changes in exploited populations of fish are mainly plastic or involving an evolutionary component. However, due to typical field data limitations, with imperfect knowledge about individual life histories, this demographic method still needs to be assessed. Using 13 years of direct mark-recap…
Hallien (halichoerus grypus) ja itämerennorppien (phoca hispida botnica) ravinnonkäyttö Perämerellä
2011
Itämeren alueen hyljekannat ovat hiljalleen toipuneet 1900-luvun liikapyynnin ja ympäristömyrkkyjen aiheuttamasta kannanromahduksesta. Hallien ja itämerennorppien kannat ovat olleet nousussa lähes koko 2000-luvun ajan. Hylkeiden määrän lisääntymisen myötä myös ammattikalastajien hyljevahingot ovat lisääntyneet. Kalastajat väittävät elinkeinonsa olevan uhattuna, koska hylkeet vahingoittavat lohipyydyksiä, syövät saalista rysistä ja kilpailevat kalastajien kanssa samoista vähäisistä lohista. Tarkkaa tietoa lohien ja taimenten osuudesta tai osuuden ajallisesta vaihtelusta hylkeiden ravinnonkäytössä ei kuitenkaan ole. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin hallien (Halichoerus grypus) (n=63) ja norpp…
Risupadot, putoukset ja tierummut taimenen (Salmo trutta) vaellusesteinä pienissä virtavesissä : kotiutumiskäyttäytymiseen perustuva tutkimus
2015
Virtavesissä kalojen liikkumista saattavat rajoittaa luonnostaan muodostuneet tai ihmisen rakentamat vaellusesteet. Muun muassa tienrakennuksen yhteydessä asennetut tierummut voivat estää kalojen kulun osittain tai kokonaan. Kivien tai kallion aiheuttama putous tai virran mukana kulkeutuva puuaines voivat myös synnyttää luonnollisen vaellusesteen. Suomessa vaellusesteitä on kartoitettu jonkin verran, mutta varsinaista tutkimusta on tehty vähän. Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkittiin, toimivatko risupadot, pienet putoukset ja tierummut taimenen (Salmo trutta) vaellusesteenä. Taimenet (91–383 mm) merkittiin mustepisteillä, Carlin-merkein tai rasvaeväleikkauksin ja siirrettiin esteen yläpuolelta sen a…
Data from: Protection first then facilitation: a manipulative parasite modulates the vulnerability to predation of its intermediate host according to…
2011
Many trophically-transmitted parasites with complex life cycles manipulate their intermediate host behavior in ways facilitating their transmission to final host by predation. This facilitation generally results from lowering host’s anti-predatory defences when the parasite is infective to the final host. However, a recent theoretical model predicts that an optimal parasitic strategy would be to protect the intermediate host from predation when non-infective, before switching to facilitation when the infective stage is reached. We tested this hypothesis in the fish acanthocephalan parasite Pomphorhynchus laevis using the amphipod Gammarus pulex as intermediate host. Gammarids parasitized by…