A multi‐population approach supports common patterns in marine growth and maturation decision in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) from southern Europe

C Tréhin, E Rivot, V Santanbien, R Patin… - Journal of Fish …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a regional picture of long‐term changes in Atlantic salmon growth at the
southern edge of their distribution, using a multi‐population approach spanning 49 years …

Understanding freshwater to marine transitional scale growth in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

B Ellingson, RE Haas-Castro… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The first marine circulus is the scale feature associated with marine entry and has been used
to support research evaluating the relationships between size, growth, and survival for …

Temporal shifts in the marine feeding of individual Atlantic salmon inferred from scale isotope ratios

M Power, EB Thorstad, T Forseth… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Given the limited information on prey use during the marine residency period for Atlantic
salmon, scales were collected from salmon at return to the River Namsen (Norway) for …

A semi-automated spectral approach to analyzing cyclical growth patterns using fish scales

JA Chaput, G Chaput - Biology Methods and Protocols, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a new semi-automated approach to analyzing growth patterns recorded on
fish scales. After manually specifying the center of the scale, the algorithm radially unwraps …

Validating Atlantic salmon (Salmo Salar) scale reading by genetic parent assignment and PIT-tagging

KR Utne, MSO Brieuc, PT Fjeldheim, K Urdal… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Understanding changes in abundance and survival in Atlantic salmon populations requires
knowledge of growth rates and age. Salmon are typically aged through scale reading, but …