It has in recent years been a shift in the land-based aquaculture production from flow through systems (FTS) to recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). With emerging use of RAS, it is necessary with knowledge regarding potential issues, whereas one potentially increasing problem is accumulation of microplastics (MP) in the RAS water. The objects of this study were to determine MPs concentration in ...

The Earth is in constant movement around the Sun – this has created environments with changing light throughout the day and year. Through evolution animals have adapted to this change in light and circadian and circannual rhythms have evolved to enhance fitness and survival. Animals living in the Arctic region have a different relationship to light changes as for several months a year the Sun ...

The Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a true arctic species and is considered to be the northernmost freshwater fish. Since this species is being known for its great variability in size, phenotype, colour, ecology and history, some of them are landlocked (which stay in freshwater all their life) and others are anadromous (they undertake summer migrations to sea and then they come back to ...

Wetlands are severely affected by human development. About 50 % of their original global extent has been lost, their populations of plants and animals have declined faster than for any other ecosystem, and 25 % of wetland-dependent species are threatened. As the main reason for these declines is habitat loss, often caused by infrastructure development, it is critical to develop conservation strategies ...

The release of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) into the Barents Sea by Russian scientists in the 1960s had the goal of establishing a self-sustaining stock for the purpose of commercial harvest. The red king crab has been successfully established as a stock in Norwegian waters where it has become an important commercial resource in the eastern regions of Finnmark. The Norwegian red king ...

Dypvannsreke Pandalus borealis har er en viktig ressurs for fiskere langs norskekysten. Årlige kvoter fastsettes basert på råd av havforskning, fiskeristatistikk og innspill fra ulike interesser, forhandlinger mellom land og politiske føringer for å sikre en bærekraftig forvaltning. Planlegging, håndtering og overvåkning av ressurser i kystsonen er viktig for å ta vare på økosystemene og sikre ...

Larval cod require live prey as food, and prey concentration (PC) and feeding frequency (FF) often afect their growth and survival. Apart from this, water exchange rates/water fow (WER/WF) and water current (WC) also afect the prey resident time in the tank and larval/early juvenile behaviour, respectively. High water current is also known to induce stress in fnfsh larvae, and this stress response ...

The function of parasites in ecosystems is often overlooked, and there is a general lack of knowledge about parasite biodiversity down to species levels, especially for cryptic species. This study looks at the seasonal dynamics of four cryptic species of the trematode Crepidostomum spp. in Lake Takvatn, Northern Norway. Samples were collected between June 2017 and May 2018, and a total of 560 ...

Microbial communities are complex assemblages that are key to ecosystem stability and human health. Synthetic ecology aims to design and construct microbial consortia with reduced complexity that enable innovative applications beyond monocultures. However, their robust and performance-based design is constrained by limited knowledge of growth dynamics and derived binary interactions that are critical ...

Basert på forskning og erfaringer kan det gis noen anbefalinger for produksjon av storsmolt med tanke på sentrale produksjonsparametere i den landbaserte fasen av produksjonen. En temperatur på 10-12 °C anbefales for å sikre god vekst i sjøfase og redusere tidlig kjønnsmodning hos hannfisk. Det anbefales ikke å gå bort fra lysstyring for å indusere smoltifisering før det foreligger mer dokumentasjon ...