Active feeding of downstream migrating juvenile pink salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha ) revealed in a large Barents Sea river using diet and stable isotope analysis

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Erkinaro, Jaakko, Orell, Panu, Kytökorpi, Mikko, Pohjola, Jan‐Peter, Power, Michael
• Other Authors: Ulkoministeriö
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Barents Sea; Teno; Fennoscandian; North Atlantic; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15625; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfb.15625

Abstract The recent, rapid spreading of non‐native pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha in the North Atlantic area has raised concerns about their possible negative impacts on native salmonid species. Potential interactions include competition for food resources during the short freshwater phase of ju...