Jellyfish summer distribution, diversity and impact on fish farms in a Nordic fjord

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Halsband, Claudia, Majaneva, Sanna Kristiina, Hosia, Aino, Emaus, Per, Gaardsted, Frank, Zhou, Qin, Nøst, Ole Anders, Renaud, Paul Eric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter-Research 2018
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Arctic; Beroe spp; Dipleurosoma typicum; Jellyfish bloom; Norway; Medusa; Finnmark
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/17365; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12274

Jellyfish can cause high mortality of farmed fish and hence significant economic losses for the aquaculture industry. Despite their socio-economic importance, distribution and diversity data on gelatinous plankton are scarce from northern Norwegian fjords and other Nordic systems. Intense blooms of...