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population ecology; Diplostomum spathaceum; England
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... Diplostomum spathaceum, Tylodelphys clavata, incidence and mean number of flukes in trout and coarse fish, relationship to availability of snail host (Lymnaea pereger) and to differential resistance of rainbow and brown trout ...
Lymnaea; embryogenesis; freshwater; reproduction; schistosomiasis; snails; temperature
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... The effect of temperature on embryonic development and reproduction ofLymnaea luteola was studied. This snail did not develop completely and failed to reproduce at 15 °C and 40 °C. The temperature range of 25 °C–35 °C was observed to be optimum for development and reproduction of this snail. The utility of this study in predicting seasonal fluctuations of snail population in nature is discussed. ...
... Helisoma duryi proposed as biological control agent for schistosomiasis, studies of egg laying and growth indicate that repeated introductions may be necessary in unstable habitats and frequent surveys to follow the populations are needed but unintended spread should be easy to prevent ...
... fish parasites, species composition, prevalence rate, and intensity in new impoundment compared with those in upstream and downstream localities ...
... Thelohania sp., probably T. cladocera in Daphnia pulex, seasonal pattern of occurrence, frequency of parasitism, effect on host growth, impact on host population growth ...
... Movements of the scavenging deep-sea fish Coryphaenoides (Nematonurus) armatus were tracked at depths of 2500–4800 m on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain and Porcupine Seabight in the NE Atlantic using the Aberdeen University Deep Ocean Submersible (AUDOS). The AUDOS was deployed with mackerel bait and three coded acoustic transponders (CATs) covered in mackerel flesh and each enclosed in a nylon bag. T ...
acoustics; aircraft; cell respiration; computer software; electric power; freshwater; heart rate; human resources; radio; salinity; seawater; telemetry; temperature
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... RAPT was developed to use systems of semi-autonomous buoys with hydrophones and radio transmitters to continuously monitor the positions and performance of multiple objects, animals and/or people tagged with miniature acoustic transmitters under water. Buoys communicate signal arrival times to shore, ship or aircraft based computers which triangulate positions in three dimensions and decode teleme ...
Cancer pagurus; computer software; crabs; females; nocturnal activity; probability; ultrasonics
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... The basic (natural) movement pattern and gear-induced behaviour of female edible crab Cancer pagurus L. were studied by means of a stationary positioning system. Nine crabs were tagged with ultrasonic transmitters and their positions were monitored approximately every third minute for 9–24 days. Because the crabs sometimes hid, the signals were often received improperly, resulting in inaccurate po ...
... The vertical distribution of free-swimming sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) was investigated in a 26 m³ indoor tank by means of acoustic telemetry. During the experiment the bottom of the tank was made progressively hypoxic.In normoxic conditions, sea bass displayed a clear diurnal rhythm during which they occupied the surface at night and swam deeper in the water column during the day. When a v ...
... Miniature pingers and automated receivers were developed and tested over three years to track Atlantic salmon smolts of different size and origin as they migrated from fresh water and at sea. Pingers (8 mm diameter × 38 mm) with delayed activation were first tested and surgically implanted in large hatchery-reared smolts (31 cm). After improvements, these pingers were implanted in smaller hatchery ...
Salmo salar; acclimation; air; body length; gold; mortality; muscle contraction; muscles; polytetrafluoroethylene; salmon; stainless steel; telemetry; temperature
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... Hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were acclimated to 8 °C and 18 °C for 1 month prior to surgical implantation of telemetry devices that measured electromyographical (EMG) impulses. Transmitters were 5 cm long, 1.6 cm diameter and weighed 18 g in air. The teflon coated, stainless steel bipolar electrodes were secured in place using gold tips (9 carat, 5 × 1 mm), that acted as anchors i ...
... Individual European lobsters were tracked on an artificial reef using an electromagnetic telemetry system, which detected movements between reef units and also recorded body movements (pitching and rolling) indicated by a tilt switch incorporated into the transmitting tag. Several environmental variables were recorded simultaneously by the telemetry system, which was self-contained on the seabed. ...
Salmo trutta; autumn; home range; life history; radio; radio frequency identification; rivers; streams; summer; telemetry; trout; water temperature
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... This telemetry study aimed to document the mobility of Salmo trutta in the River Ourthe sub-basin (tributary of the River Meuse) during summer and autumn, and to analyse the environmental factors which trigger spawning migration or limit their extension. Nine trout (233–2217 g and 26.6–55.2 cm FL) were radio-tagged with intraperitoneal radio transmitters and positioned daily, from 14 August 1996 t ...
... Externally attached telemetry transmitters are unsuitable to tag yellow eels Anguilla anguilla (L.), in streams where they exhibit cryptic life habits and hide in narrow cavities between rocks. We evaluated the adequacy of surgical implantation and closing procedures for tagging eels with biotelemetry transmitters. Epoxy dummy transmitters (18 × 8 mm, 1.6–1.7 g) were implanted in eels anaesthetise ...
equipment; radio telemetry; radio waves; system optimization
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... The choice of operating frequency has always been the subject of considerable controversy amongst researchers. Many select the radio frequency at which they conduct their studies based solely upon the availability of equipment at hand or simply on tradition. Researchers are often not fully aware of the proximal impact of frequency choice on overall system performance and its ultimate impact upon t ...
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; air; blood proteins; body weight; fish; hematocrit; juveniles; migratory behavior; necropsy; physiological response; radio transmitters; spring; yearlings; Columbia River
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... We examined the effects of surgical and gastric transmitter implantation techniques on the growth, general physiology and behavior of 230 subyearling chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Walbaum) (100 mm–154 mm fork length). The transmitter weighed 1.3 g in air (0.9 g in water) and comprised, on average, 6% of the body weight of the fish (in air). Individuals were randomly assigned to an expe ...
... Routine metabolic rate (RMR) and heart rate (HR) were measured simultaneously in 15 °C-acclimated and free swimming European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in normoxic and hypoxic conditions. The RMR fell within the boundaries previously reported for that species, i.e. the standard metabolic rate and the [Formula: see text]-curve which describes the relationship between maximum sustainable oxy ...
Salmo trutta; ferrimagnetic materials; radio telemetry; rivers; Netherlands
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... A new telemetric method, the NEDAP TRAIL System®, has been developed to study sea trout migration in the delta area of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. This method is based on inductive coupling between an antenna loop on the bottom of a river or canal and ferrite rod antenna incorporated in a tag of the transponder type. Field tests showed that the detection system functions well with a maximum antenn ...
Salmo salar; adults; radio; rivers; salmon; water flow; Norway
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... The upstream migration of Atlantic salmon tagged with radio transmitters was analysed on a 6 km long stretch of the River Mandalselva (southern Norway), where the residual flow was 3 m³ s⁻¹. Over a period of 40 days six artificial freshets were released. Two of the freshets lasted continuously for 48 hours and four of the freshets consisted of successive pulses of increased water discharge. There ...
Salvelinus alpinus; fish; ice; migratory behavior; radio; radio frequency identification; radio telemetry; rivers
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... Migratory and reproductive activities of Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus L.) were studied using radio-telemetry in two adjacent river systems in northern Labrador, Canada. A total of 154 Arctic char were radio-tagged. Coded radio tags were surgically implanted into the body cavity of char, in the Summer and Fall of 1996. Individuals movements were monitored using 3 solar powered, fixed data loggin ...
Abramis brama; Esox lucius; Scardinius; Tinca tinca; bream; habitats; home range; pike; radio; radio telemetry
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... Radio telemetry was used to monitor the movement of four species of coarse fish in a 11.2 km long section of canal from January to June 1996. One specimen of bream, rudd × bream hybrid, tench and pike were captured using electrofishing apparatus and Lotek CFRT-3EMXT pulse coded aquatic transmitter tags, operating at 173.3 Mhz (with individual ID codes), were sutured externally. The movements of th ...
Salmo trutta; adults; dams (hydrology); fish; migratory behavior; rivers; telemetry; ultrasonics; water currents; water flow; Poland
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... Ultrasonic telemetry was used to study the movements and behaviour of 27 adult migratory sea trout, 60–90 cm in fork length. Fish were caught near the tailrace of a hydroelectric dam, tagged externally and released in October 1993, 1994 and 1996. Distribution of tagged sea trout depended on flow patterns in the tailrace. At high water discharge (maximum water current greater than 1 m s⁻¹) during t ...
case studies; fisheries; habitat preferences; habitats; hydrology; information storage; life history; migratory behavior; ontogeny; predation; reproduction; risk; spiders; telemetry; temperature; topography
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... Decapod crustaceans have complex life histories and behaviour in aspects such as foraging, mating and reproduction, moulting and growth, habitat selection and migration. New technologies have enabled us to use an individual, field-based approach to analyze these problems, although they have been less developed in decapods than in marine vertebrates. These new possibilities are discussed here mainl ...
Chondrostoma nasus; adults; endangered species; fish; habitats; home range; population dynamics; radio telemetry; rivers; temperature; Switzerland
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... Due to a massive population decline of nase (Chondrostoma nasus L.) in the river Aare (Switzerland), a radiotelemetry study was designed to detect the habitat use of this endangered species. Although big individual differences in behaviour occurred for adult nase, habitat preferences for runs with currents between 0.5 and 1 m s⁻¹, coarse sediments and depths between 1 and 2 m could be shown. The f ...
Gadus morhua; deglutition; fishing boats; solar radiation; swimming; trawl nets
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... The behaviour of cod (Gadus morhua L.) towards an approaching vessel during trawling was studied by means of a stationary positioning system. Three cod were tagged by allowing them to voluntarily swallow transmitters wrapped in bait. The behaviour was recorded before, during and after trawling, which was carried out during high and low light level.Nine hauls were carried out, but only six hauls ar ...
Salmo salar; adults; radio; radio frequency identification; riparian areas; rivers; salmon; stomach
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... Regurgitation rates of tagged salmon in the wild are difficult to estimate as few fish are recovered and thus the fate of the majority of tags is difficult to assess unambiguously. During a study on the River Tweed between 1994 and 1996, 281 returning adult salmon were caught by net and coble, and radio tagged. Salmon recaptured by rod and line were used as a sample of the radio-tagged population ...
community structure; stream channels; channelization; watersheds; freshwater fish; species diversity; population density; wildlife habitats; ecological restoration; water erosion; Mississippi
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... Channel incision has major impacts on stream corridor ecosystems, leading to reduced spatial habitat heterogeneity, greater temporal instability, less stream-floodplain interaction, and shifts in fish community structure. Most literature dealing with channel incision examines physical processes and erosion control. A study of incised warmwater stream rehabilitation was conducted to develop and dem ...
... The introduction of ‘Catch and Release’ fishery programs are now widely employed by fisheries managers in most Atlantic Provinces, primarily due to the recent decline of Atlantic salmon stocks on the east coast of Canada. However, there is still considerable debate among special interest groups and regulators as to the effectiveness of the technique. Heart rate telemetry has been utilized as a too ...
Anguilla anguilla; agitation; diel activity; eel; immigration; nocturnal activity; radio; radio frequency identification; rivers; sedentary lifestyle; streams; water temperature; weather
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... Seven yellow eels (572–643 mm, 318–592 g) Anguilla anguilla (L.) were tagged with surgically implanted radio transmitters (activity circuit, 1.6–1.7 g) and tracked in the Awirs stream, a small (width < 5 m, depth from 0.1 to 1.2 m), densely populated (ca. 250 kg of eel ha⁻¹) tributary of the Belgian River Meuse. The eels were positioned daily from late April to mid-August, and their diel activity ...
Barbus barbus; cost effectiveness; data collection; fish; home range; models; regression analysis; rivers; telemetry
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... Selecting an optimum sampling frequency is a key problem in fish telemetry studies. High frequency positioning gives an accurate idea of the actual mobility pattern of the animal but may be impossible due to environmental constraints, prohibitive cost or when using long life transmitters operating on duty cycles. Low frequency positioning may prove effective, but only for a minimum loss of accurac ...
Thunnus albacares; Thunnus obesus; acoustics; tuna; French Polynesia
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... This paper reviews results of some experiments conducted in French Polynesia on tuna behaviour. A method based on the simultaneous use of two techniques, acoustic tracking and acoustic surveys, was used. Experiments were conducted within the framework of the ECOTAP program, a joint program between two national research institutes (IFREMER and ORSTOM), and a territorial institute (EVAAM).Acoustic t ...
Liza; Salvelinus alpinus; females; fish; lakes; males; migratory behavior; radio; radio transmitters; rivers; solar radiation; streams
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... A sample of twenty Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus L. from Ennerdale lake were externally tagged, using a small radio transmitter, during their annual spawning migration. Ten fish (5 male, 5 female) were captured from each of the two spawning tributaries using electrofishing techniques. Following release, migration behaviour was observed remotely through a network of automatic radio listening sta ...
Salmo trutta; body length; death; estuaries; fish ladders; freshwater; radio; rivers; trout; Denmark
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... From September to November in 1995 a total of 49 mature sea trout were caught and radio tagged in the estuary (Randers fjord) or at the river mouth of the River Gudenå in Eastern Jutland. The tagged trout were between 2 and 6 yr old with total body length of 56–85 cm. Twenty-five of the tagged trout ascended the river. They were tracked every third day, for up to six months, until death or descent ...
... High mortality-rates of seaward migrating salmonid smolts when passing reservoirs and lakes have earlier been found in the Danish River Gudenå watershed. To reveal the causes of mortality of migrating smolts in Lake Tange, a 12 km long, shallow reservoir, 50 salmon smolts and 24 trout smolts were tagged with internal miniature radio-transmitters, and released in the river just upstream the reservo ...
Thunnus albacares; acoustics; telemetry; Indian Ocean; Reunion
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... This paper analyses acoustic tagging of 8 yellowfin tunas (Thunnus albacares, Bonnaterre, 1788) undertaken around Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) in La Reunion island (Indian Ocean). Emphasis is laid on the horizontal movements and thus complete previous studies on vertical movements around the same FADs. The first result of the present study deals with the relative dwelling time of yellowfin over ...
Leuciscus leuciscus; fish; radio frequency identification; radio transmitters; rivers
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... Advances in radio-tag design have resulted in the production of tags suitable for use with relatively small fish. A method of release intended to minimise stress and increase validity of early tracks was designed. A technique of accurately locating radio-tags was developed and tested. Preliminary tracking results show that dace are highly mobile, and are capable of extensive, and often rapid migra ...
... Several methods to indirectly estimate metabolism of aquatic animals have been reported, including heart rate, electromyograms, video recording, and averaging velocity of an animal moving between two or more points. The present study carried out in the lagoon at Bimini Islands, Bahamas, used acoustic, speed-sensing transmitters to indirectly estimate energy consumption of 1.5–2 m subadult lemon sh ...
... Consideration of position fixing errors associated with fixed array acoustic tracking techniques has generally concentrated upon the consequences of inaccuracies in the timing of the arrival of the ultrasonic pulse at each hydrophone, the overall accuracy of the system being determined by combining timing errors with information on the position of the transmitter in the array. This paper presents ...
... This paper describes a micro controller based data logger designed to be externally attached to fish, in this case adult Atlantic salmon. The logger can measure ambient temperature and the temperature difference between ambient and dorsal white muscle, the latter with high resolution and accuracy. Communication with a computer for data transfer pass over a detachable transformer coupling. This tra ...
... A combined acoustic and radio transmitting (CART) tag employing a dynamic conductivity switch suitable for investigating the migratory behavior of diadromous fish is described. The unique feature of the transmitter is its ability to sense the electrical conductivity of the ambient water and therefore operate in the appropriate signal mode. Under fresh water conditions the transmitter operates in r ...
Salmo trutta; juveniles; life history; population dynamics; rivers; spring; transponders; trout
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... From 1993 to 1995, more than 2000 of 0 + brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) were captured in a small brook in October and released after clipping the left pelvic fin. More than 1700 of them were also tagged with a small Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag (11 mm long) implanted in the body cavity. Tagged juveniles were recaptured in May in the brook but also one year later in the river Oir, and co ...
Sander lucioperca; fish; fish ladders; immigration; interdisciplinary research; radio frequency identification; radio telemetry; research programs
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... This radio telemetry study is part of a large interdisciplinary research program on the colonisation and development of the Marchfeldkanal(MFK)-system, a man made channel. The immigration of fishes into the MFK is dependent on the effectiveness of fish bypass channels at several weirs. To investigate the efficiency of the lower most fishway we estimated the population densities along the MFK-syste ...
Dicentrarchus labrax; Gadus morhua; acoustics; heart rate; oxygen consumption
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... The present paper proposes a new method for the external attachment of an acoustic tag on roundfish. The tag is placed in anterio-ventral position and attached with two wires passed around the pelvic girdle. This tagging method was tested on Atlantic cod and European sea bass using acoustic heart rate transmitters. Preliminary results concerning metabolic demand (oxygen consumption), heart rate an ...
... There is wide concern regarding the effects that estuarine barrages may have on estuarine environments and the species which utilise them. Of particular concern are the possible effects on diadromous fish which move between fresh and salt water. This paper presents results from a 3 year investigation (1993–95) of the migratory behaviour of both juvenile and adult salmonids undertaken in the vicini ...
... Thirty wild Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (L.) smolts, tagged with miniature acoustic transmitters, were tracked in the River Test and Southampton Water, to describe the freshwater and estuarine patterns of migration. Migration in freshwater was predominantly nocturnal (mean time 23:42) and smolts tagged earlier in the study spent significantly longer in the river before migrating into the estuary t ...
Salmo salar; Salmo trutta; autumn; basins; pollution; radio; radio telemetry; rivers; salmon; streams; summer; trout; water quality; Rhine River
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... Atlantic salmon disappeared from the Rhine River in the mid-fifties when pollution and canalization of the main course of the river blocked access to their spawning areas. After water quality improved in the 1980's, a reintroduction program was begun in the French upper Rhine basin in 1992. To better define the difficulties encountered by the returning salmon on their way between the Iffezheim dam ...
... The progressive eutrophication of Lake Balaton was perceived in the early 1970s. From 1975 to 1994, the development of summer blooms of N&2inf;-fixing cyanobacteria, especially Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, became a regular phenomenon in the western part and sometimes in the eastern part of the lake. Since 1995, the biomass of phytoplankton, particularly N&2inf;-fixing cyanobacteria, has decreas ...
... In the shallow Lake Velencei (surface area 24.5 km²) reed communities (Scirpo-Phragmitetum) are of great significance due to extensive metabolic activity of algal-bacterial associations developing on their submerged surfaces. Samples for algological and bacteriological studies were taken in April 2000 and July 2001 at five sites of the lake and were analysed with traditional methods as well as wit ...
... We investigated the allelopathic activity of two submersed macrophytes with different growth forms and nutrient uptake modes, Ceratophyllum demersum and Najas marina ssp. intermedia. A bioassay-directed method development revealed optimal extraction solvents for allelochemicals from both macrophytes. For Najas, 50% methanol and for Ceratophyllum 50% acetone yielded the strongest inhibition in the ...
... Allelopathic activity of Chara aspera was determined in agar diffusion assays using planktonic cyanobacteria as target organisms. Growth inhibition of cyanobacterial strains was observed in bioassays inoculated with living Chara aspera shoots as well as with 60% aqueous methanol extracts of Chara aspera. For further analysis, the methanol extract was fractionated into three parts: a lipophilic met ...
development projects; environmental impact; habitats; human population; lakes; pollution control; rivers; saltwater intrusion; sea level; water quality; Philippines
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... The assessment of the Laguna de Bay's changing ecological status is imperative in order to address the growing concern of its possible impact on the suitability of the lake to the various user functions and future demands. The innovative use of a water quality evaluation method through the application of the Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) can support ecological impact studies in Laguna de Bay. ...
... Bacterial abundance and activity were investigated by DAPI-staining and ³H-thymidine incorporation method in samples from a very shallow, hypertrophic hard water lake and from acidic mining lakes in north-eastern Germany. Bacterial cell numbers in the acidic lakes were about one order of magnitude less than in the hypertrophic natural lake but are probably underestimated due to methodological prob ...