Time trends in fish populations in metropolitan France: insights from national monitoring data

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Poulet, N., Beaulaton, L., Dembski, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Brama; Anguilla anguilla; European eel
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03084.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8649.2011.03084.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03084.x

Using the electrofishing database of the French National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environment (Onema), the time trends of 48 freshwater fish taxa at 590 sites monitored for at least 8 years from 1990 to 2009 were investigated. The results demonstrated that species richness increased steadily fro...