PhD Candidate Lotte S Dahlmo visited two early career researchers at VLIZ in Belgium this week. In the fall of 2023, Lotte Pohl and David Casals, both employed at VLIZ, reached out to Lotte to collabo...

The role of pathogens in impacting the behaviour and fate of salmonids has been studied extensively for some selected pathogens such as sea lice. However, the whole pathobiome of the fish are seldom ...

We received great news from Save Our Seas Foundation that the Ghost Track project will be funded. The ghost shark, Chimaera monstrosa, is a deep water cartilaginous fish that occupies great depths. Th...

In Norway, the government said this year’s salmon fishing season would be the most restricted ever. That’s because the wild salmon population is in serious decline. That’s partly because of salmon far...

Habitat is a powerful force in ecosystems, and the quantity and quality of habitat can shape ecosystem structure and function. Among the many important roles that habitat plays is as a mediator of ec...

Vitenskapelig råd for lakseforvaltning er et uavhengig råd opprettet av Miljødirektoratet, som vurderer bestandsstatus for norsk laks, trusselfaktorer, beskatningsnivå og andre tema som berører villak...

ALT: a man with a mustache is holding a stick and says take the bait

Aim Salmonids are some of the best studied species with respect to their pathobiome, and at the northern range limit, there is potential for pathogens to expand with both climate change and increase...

Satellite tagging and data logger telemetry have revolutionized our understanding of marine vertebrates, including fish. This empowers researchers to unravel the mysteries of marine life, contributing...

Years long fight by local tribes has paid off after four dams, which had blocked passage for fish for decades, came down

Several pathogens of salmon farms may put wild salmon at risk in British Columbia, Canada.

We recently received amazing news from the Norwegian Research Council (NRC) that our 'Pressures of Urbanisation on Fish and Fisheries in Norway and South Africa (PUFFINS)' project will receive funding...

As the PACE (Pathogen, Aquaculture, Climate, and Environment) project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, nears completion, new findings have emerged about the risks facing wild salmonids in northern Norway due to climate change and fish farm expansion.Project OverviewThe study, conducted by researchers from NORCE, NTNU, and DFO (Canada), explores how wild salmonids like Atlantic salmon, sea trout, and Arctic charr are affected by the increasing presence of pathogens linked to fish farmin

In September and October, we are tagging migrating silver eels in Storelva in Tvedestrand, Southern Norway. We have previously documented that a significant number of eels pass through the hydropower ...

Hafrannsóknastofnun óskar eftir að ráða doktorsnema til starfa við rannsóknir í sjávarlíffræði í verkefni sem snýr að þáttum sem hafa áhrif á meðafla sjáva

We have now completed the first year's fieldwork in the NICE project in Svalbard. We have had several successful field trips, including the tagging of char in July, retrieval and deployment of new rec...