Migratory behaviour and ocean survival of escaped out-of-season smolts of farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

• Published in: Aquaculture Environment Interactions
• Main Author: Skilbrei, Ove
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter-Research 2013
• Subjects: VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Aquaculture: 922; Long Fjord; Norway; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/109183; https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00062

A large proportion of farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. smolts are produced under intensive rearing conditions. They reach smolt size and are transferred to net pens in seawater during their first autumn under a short natural daylength, instead of being synchronised with the natural period for s...