Rehabilitation efforts for Atlantic salmon in the Meuse basin area: Synthesis 1983-1998

• Main Authors: Prignon, C, Micha, JC, Rimbaud, G, Philippart, JC
• Other Authors: FUNDP
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Kluwer Academic Publ 1999
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon; rehabilitation; Meuse; restocking; weir; fish pass; Weir
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/99350; https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003739327687

In the 1950s, Atlantic salmon had become extinct in the river Meuse basin, mainly owing to the construction of navigation weirs. In 1987 started a rehabilitation program of Atlantic salmon in Belgium. Stockings are being performed in six tributaries of the river Meuse, using eyed eggs, parr and pre-...