The Decline and Impending Collapse of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Population in the North Atlantic Ocean: A Review of Possible Causes

M Dadswell, A Spares, J Reader… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Adult returns to many Atlantic salmon wild and hatchery stocks of the North Atlantic have
declined or collapsed since 1985. Enhancement, commercial fishery closures, and angling …

A review of marine stressors impacting Atlantic salmon Salmo salar, with an assessment of the major threats to English stocks

JP Gillson, T Bašić, PI Davison, WD Riley… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is a socio-economically important anadromous fish species that
has suffered synchronous population declines around the North Atlantic over the last five …

Ecological regime shift in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean revealed from the unprecedented reduction in marine growth of Atlantic salmon

KW Vollset, K Urdal, K Utne, EB Thorstad… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Ecological regime shifts are abrupt changes in the structure and function of ecosystems that
persist over time, but evidence of contemporary regime shifts are rare. Historical scale data …

Atlantic salmon in a rapidly changing environment—Facing the challenges of reduced marine survival and climate change

EB Thorstad, D Bliss, C Breau… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic salmon populations have declined in recent decades. Many of the threats to the
species during its freshwater and coastal residency periods are known, and management …

Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species

M Lindmark, J Ohlberger, A Gårdmark - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
According to the temperature‐size rule, warming of aquatic ecosystems is generally
predicted to increase individual growth rates but reduce asymptotic body sizes of …

Assessing climate change impacts on North American freshwater habitat of wild Atlantic salmon-urgent needs for collaborative research

CA Gillis, V Ouellet, C Breau, D Frechette… - Canadian Water …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change and human activities have dramatically affected all ecosystems inhabited by
Atlantic salmon, causing drastic population declines. Change in river temperature dynamics …

Poor feeding opportunities and reduced condition factor for salmon post-smolts in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean

KR Utne, BD Pauli, M Haugland… - ICES Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
During the last few decades, many wild Atlantic salmon populations have declined
dramatically. One possible contributing factor for the decline is reduced prey availability at …

LéXPLORE: A floating laboratory on Lake Geneva offering unique lake research opportunities

A Wüest, D Bouffard, J Guillard… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental sciences depend heavily on observational data. Successful studies of
ecological processes in lakes require in‐situ data that cover the relevant temporal scales …

Growth during the first summer at sea modulates sex-specific maturation schedule in Atlantic salmon

C Tréhin, E Rivot, L Lamireau, L Meslier… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Recent decline in abundance of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and concomitant changes in
life history may result from a decline in the growth conditions during marine migration …

[HTML][HTML] A hypothesis-driven statistical approach for identifying ecosystem indicators of coho and Chinook salmon marine survival

KL Sobocinski, CM Greene, JH Anderson… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Efforts to understand causes of declines in productivity of species of concern often involve
retrospective evaluation of multiple possible causes based on trends in relevant ecological …