Reduced oxygen concentrations in herring wintering areas

• Main Authors: Dommasnes, Are, Rey, Francisco, Røttingen, Ingolf
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES 1992
• Subjects: oxygen level; oksygennivå; herring; sild; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Norway; Tysfjord; Vestfjord; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/104968

Since 1987 the major part of the adult Norwegian spring spawning herring stock has been wintering in the Ofotfjord and the Tysfjord, two tributaries to the Vestfjord in northern Norway. The herring enter the fjords in August-September, and leave again in January, to start their spawning migration. T...