Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a disease that affects farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. several months after the fish have been transferred to seawater. Recently, a new virus called piscine reovirus (PRV) was identified in Atlantic salmon from an o...

ICES coordinated surveys are, on a non-regular basis, reviewed by parent expert groups. A potential problem is that these are often conducted by evaluators being themselves involved in the surveys, thus lacking independence.Compared to the cost of most surveys, the fund...

Contributor: Lene Buhl Mortensen

Contributor: Svein A. Iversen

Technical regulations and by-catch criteria in the Baretns Sea fisheries. Proceedings of the 9th PINRO-IMR Symposium. Murmansk, 14-15 August 2001. The Norwegian seine fishery has traditionally been performed in relative shallow water close to the coast, and this as inev...

Fishes hunting by sight are known to pay a cost of confusion when faced with high densities of uniform food particles. In such instances, awareness of other stimuli reduces feeding efficiency such that the fishes prefer low densities of food particles. Farmed Atlantic s...

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (S. gairdneri) eggs were incubated in plexi-glass aquariums. After hatching, alevins were kept in darkness, two groups of each species without substrate, two groups in gravel and two groups in Astroturf artificial substrat...